sbx82 hardware maintenance

7. At the next user prompt, the system will display "Start to program flash? (Y/N)". Select "Y" to program the BMC and SDR.

8. At this point, the system will flash and initialize the BMC. The SDR will also be automatically updated.

9. Following completion of the BMC and SDR update, the system will display "BMC firmware and SDRs updated successfully". Ensure that this message is displayed before proceeding.

10. Finally, you will be prompted to remove the disk from the drive and manually reboot the system.

11. Once the system has restarted, confirm the version change by checking the Blade System

Management Processor revision shown under the "Firmware VPD" tab in the Management

Module web interface. See the "Firmware VPD" section in the Management Module User’s

Guide.

12. It is also possible toflash the BMC via the Management Module web interface. See the firmware update procedures in the Management Module User’s Guide.

Online (OS Present) BIOS Update

The Microsoft* Windows* online flash utility ( wflash

) and the Linux online flash utility ( lflash

) update the BIOS while the Intel

®

Server Compute Blade SBX82 is running either a Windows or a

Linux operating system.

BIOS Update from Windows Operating System

The Intel

®

Server Compute Blade SBX82 Windows Update Package includes the wflash.exe

file, the data files for the firmware being flashed and all files needed to create a DOS flash diskette. The following are supported Windows operating systems for the wflash

utility:

• Microsoft* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition

• Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003, Enterprise Edition

• Microsoft* Windows* 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4 or later

• Microsoft* Windows* 2000 Server with Service Pack 4 or later

GUI operation

When run without parameters,

wflash.exe

allows the user to perform one of three tasks:

1. Perform the update - This operation performs the update immediately. A dialog box pops up showing the output from wflash.exe

. See “Steps to perform update (GUI)” on page 72 for

details.

2. Extract the Windows update to the hard drive - This extracts all the files necessary to perform the

Windows flash to a directory chosen by the user on the hard drive. The extract Windows flash

files are useful for inclusion into an automated process. See “Steps to extract the Windows

Update to the hard drive (GUI)” on page 72 for details.

3. Extract the DOS update to floppy disk - This extracts a copy of the DOS update disk image to a floppy. this floppy is identical to floppies created with the normal update disk images. See

“Steps to extract DOS update files to diskette (GUI)” on page 72 for details.

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