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On 1/15/2011 6:44 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson
>>
>> you can boot into UEFI and apply the updates there.
>> It's very handy not having to wrestle bootable USB sticks anymore.
>
> What do you mean, "boot into uefi?"
> AFAIK, when I need to update firmwares of my dell solaris server, I need to
> boot from a centos livecd (dell customized) or something like a usb device
> with a centos installation on it... Or boot from an iscsi device with
> something like centos on it...
>
The UEFI interface is available by hitting F10 ("System Services") when
the system boots. It exists on all the 11G (i.e. m*, r*) Poweredges I've
used so far. I don't believe it's available on any previous Dell servers.
- --
- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected])
- -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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