Updating DELL Server firmware on Redhat based Linux Servers

by Omshivaprakash | Feb 5, 2012 | General, Gnu/Linux, linux, Technical, technology

It has become quite simple to upgrade the DELL Servers firmwares if you’re running Linux on them.

Find the repos from Linux portal of Dell.
# set up repos
wget -q -O – https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/bootstrap.cgi | bash
wget -q -O – https://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Install the firmware tools

yum -y install firmware-addon-dell

And here you go. Update BIOS updates/firmwares easily.

# install BIOS update
yum -y install $(bootstrap_firmware)
update_firmware

Tags: CentOS, Dell, Fedora, firmware upgrade, Redhat