Release Notes

• BIOS updates require system services to be enabled.
• If the operating system is installed from Operating System Deployment, select Reboot and Exit
in the USC environment before booting to the operating system. This closes the USC session which
is held for 18 hours. If you do not want to enter the USC and select Reboot and Exit, but want to
execute the DUPs within 18 hours, unplug the power supply of the system, wait for 10 seconds,
and then power on the system.
• BIOS DUP will use LC to update BIOS. BIOS DUP will stage the BIOS firmware to maser partition and
create a SSIB update task, which is executed by the SSM manager on reboot. The update task in
the SSIB is a call to update wrapper in LC which has BIOS update logic.
BIOS
• 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
2. display screen).
3. Press "e" again on the 'uppermem=' line and edit uppermem=819200.
4. Press "Enter".
5. Press "e" on the kernel line (below the uppermem line).
6. Edit the kernel line with mem=800M and press “Enter”.
7. Press "b" to boot with these options.
8. 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.
Dell Embedded Open Manage Server Administrator
The Dell Update Package for Dell Embedded OpenManage Server Administrator can only be applied in a
pre-operating system environment that uses Embedded Linux (ELI) through the Dell OpenManage
Deployment Toolkit (DTK).
DRAC 5 firmware
• Before updating the DRAC firmware, ensure that the following conditions are met:
-USB is enabled
-IPMI is working properly