Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Getting Started With Dell Update Packages
- Using Dell Update Packages
- Performing BIOS and Firmware Updates Using Dell Linux Online Repository
- Update and Rollback in Unified Server Configurator - Lifecycle Controller Enabled
- Command Line Interface Reference
- Linux Troubleshooting
- Known Issues
- Diagnostic Tasks Will Not Run While a DUP Reboot is Pending
- Abnormal Termination of a DUP
- Error While Loading Shared Libraries
- Insufficient Free Physical Memory to Load the BIOS Image
- Kernel Panic While Running Storage Controller Firmware Update Packages
- Loss of Functionality While Renaming Linux DUPs
- Yum and Up2date Repository Management Software Caches Incorrect Repository Metadata
- Use Dell Linux Repository with yum and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 4
- DUPs Fail on 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System
- DUP Update of Firmware Might Fail While Running in the UEFI Mode
- Messages
- DUP Message Logs
- Known Issues
- Windows Troubleshooting and FAQs
- Index
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Performing BIOS and Firmware
Updates Using Dell Linux Online
Repository
You can update your system to the latest version or to a specific version of the
BIOS and firmware available in the Dell Linux online repository. The updates
are available in the RPM Package Manager (RPM) format. RPM is a standard
package format for software updates specific to Linux operating systems. You
can inventory the system, scan the repository for matching firmware with
newer version using repository management software such as yum, up2date,
rug, and zypper. The repository management software support the following
operating systems:
• Yum: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 (x86_32, x86_64)
• Up2date: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 8 (x86_32, x86_64)
• Rug: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (x86_64)
• Zypper: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
Firmware-tools are used to update BIOS and firmware on your system. With
firmware-tools, the RPM-based BIOS and firmware updates are available
along with the packages containing the tools to install those updates. Using a
repository management software, you can easily update your BIOS and
firmware to the latest or specific versions on your system.
The latest BIOS and firmware updates are available at the Dell OM 6.2 Linux
Repository website at linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/.
To update BIOS and firmware for your system:
1
Setup/bootstrap the repository.
2
Install firmware-tools.
3
Download applicable firmware.
4
Update BIOS and firmware.