Owner's Manual

Performing BIOS and Firmware Updates Using Dell Linux Online Repository 27
Automatically Update Firmware
By default, installing a BIOS or firmware RPM does not apply the update to
the hardware. The update is manually applied using the
update_firmware command. However, you can automatically update the
hardware during RPM installation by configuring the
/etc/firmware/firmware.conf file.
To automatically install BIOS and firmware updates, ensure that rpm_mode
is set to auto in the firmware.conf file as shown:
[main]
# Automatically install BIOS updates when an RPM BIOS Update file is installed
# values: 'auto', 'manual'
# default: 'manual'
rpm_mode=auto
Viewing Log Information
The log information is stored in the firmware-updates.log file located at
/var/log/ folder.