Re: Cannot update Backplane Firmware on Dell PowerEdge 1850

[Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown dell com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:58:47PM +0200, wolf2k5 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.

service openipmi stop

--
Michael

> 
> 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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