[Beowulf] Repenting for sins against Dell (on good Friday, no less)

Leif Nixon leif.nixon at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 04:19:00 PDT 2009


Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 at 12:26pm, Mark Hahn wrote
>
>> HP distributes linux-based firmware updates, but only for add-in devices
>> (scsi controllers, BMC, etc), not the bios itself...
>
> Erm, I just (as in, this week) upgraded the BIOS of a batch of DL160
> G5s from within Linux.

Ah, but then you have to actually find the relevant download on HP's
website, which has a suckiness index of something that really, really
sucks.

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Leif Nixon                       -            Systems expert
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