Owner's Manual
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system, wait for 10 seconds, and then power on the system.
* Supported devices:
USC, Driver Pack, Diagnostic, iDRAC, Ridgeback
* Supported Operating Systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - both x86_32 and x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - both x86_32 and x86_64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- VMware ESX Server version 3.5
- Citrix XenServer
- ELI
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BIOS
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* A BIOS update requires enough free physical memory to load the
entire BIOS image into physical memory. If there is insufficient
free physical memory available on the system to load the BIOS image,
the Dell Update Package for BIOS may fail. In this instance,
you may attempt running the Dell Update Package immediately after
reboot or after adding more memory. If this does not resolve the
issue, update the BIOS using the diskette method.
* If the above memory limitation occurs on VMWare ESX Server, the
problem is because the console operating system available memory is
only 272 MB by default. Increase the console operating system memory
to 800 MB temporarily and perform the firmware update. During ESX
Server boot up, perform the following steps to increase the
available memory:
1. While booting, press 'e' on the VMware ESX line (Grub option
display screen).
2. Press 'e' again on the 'uppermem=' line and edit uppermem=819200.
3. Press Enter.
4. Press ‘e’ on the kernel line (Just below the uppermem line).
Edit the kernel line with mem=800M and press “Enter”.
5. Press 'b' to boot with these options.
6. Perform the firmware update.
* BIOS update may issue the following kernel messages on the console
and in "/var/log/messages":
dcd***: disagrees about the version of symbol struct_module
dcd***: Unknown symbol get_user_size
dcd***: Unknown symbol put_user_size
Ignore these messages because they do not refer to errors in BIOS
update.
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ESM firmware, BMC firmware, BP firmware, and DRAC 5 firmware
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