Re: Cannot update Backplane Firmware on Dell PowerEdge 1850

[Kent Baxley <kbaxley redhat com>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:58:47 +0200
wolf2k5 <wolf2k5 gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We've a Dell PowerEdge 1850 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update
> 9 and OpenManage 5.2.0.
> 
> We've tried to update the Backplane Firmware using the 	Linux
> Update Package from Dell [1], but we've got the following error
> message:
> 
> 
> 
> # ./ESM_FRMW_LX_R99806.BIN
> Collecting inventory...
> 
> The OpenIPMI driver is currently loaded. Please unload the driver
> before executing.

Check and see if the ipmi service is running by executing the following
command:

/sbin/service ipmi status

If ipmi is running and the drivers are loaded, then run:

/sbin/service ipmi stop

This should unload the OpenIPMI drivers for you.





> BIOS
> 
> 
> 
> We've also restarted the server, but no luck.
> 
> All other Linux Update Packages (BIOS, etc.) from Dell worked fine on
> the same server.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix the problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1]
> <http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R99806&formatcnt=4&libid=0&fileid=129088>
> 
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