Thursday, August 30, 2007

Bios upgrade on a Debian system

This one specifically refers to Dell and Debian - which is what we run.
Since Dell supports Windows and RHEL as its standard platforms, it seems like we are on our own.

DRAC firmware upgrade
Bhushan found that the DRAC firmware upgrades can be done using the DRAC interface itself.
  1. Login to DRAC web
  2. Goto "Media:Virtual Flash"
  3. Upload Image file
Prerequisites:
Download the firmware image from dell.com for the system.

CLI - go racadm
the racadm command line - ssh to the DRAC IP and run racadm help fwupdate. This one I haven't run and will update some day in the future.
A very detailed reference to set of steps from Marius are available here.