Installing the firmware upgrades, Installing the firmware updates navigation, Installing bios firmware upgrades – Nortel Networks Application Server 53r 5300 00 User Manual

Page 102: Prerequisites

Advertising
background image

102

Maintenance Releases

If the versions do not match, upgrade the firmware.

--End--

Installing the firmware upgrades

Use these procedures to install firmware upgrades.

Installing the firmware updates navigation

"Installing BIOS firmware upgrades" (page 102)

"Installing Base Management Controller (BMC) firmware upgrades"
(page 103)

"Installing diagnostics firmware upgrades" (page 104)

"Installing RSA-II card firmware upgrades" (page 105)

"Installing NIC firmware upgrades" (page 106)

"Installing hard drive firmware upgrades" (page 106)

"Installing ServeRAID firmware upgrades" (page 107)

Installing BIOS firmware upgrades

Use this procedure to install upgrades to the BIOS firmware. This
procedure requires the reboot of the server.

Prerequisites

You must be assigned to the SSA role (ntsysadm).

You must have the CD containing the BIOS firmware upgrade file.

Procedure Steps

Step

Action

1

Load the BIOS firmware upgrade CD into the CD-ROM drive.

2

Log on to the server as the SSA role (ntsysadm).

3

Reboot the server.

sudo reboot

4

If the operating system has been installed, change the boot
sequence so that the CD-ROM is the primary boot device by
doing the following:

When the BIOS information appears, press F12 to select the
boot sequence.

Select CD-ROM as the primary boot device.

Otherwise, wait for the server to reboot.

Application Server 5300

Nortel AS 5300 Installation

NN42040-300

01.04

4 November 2008

Copyright © 2007-2008 Nortel Networks

.

Advertising