Ubuntu 8.04 and DELL PowerEdge 1650
Do not just upgrade to Hardy! A bug in PowerEdge's firmware could bite you.
Before you upgrade your Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04, take a moment or two and check all devices firmware on your PowerEdge. If yours Perc (PowerEdge Adaptec based RAID controller) 3/Di didn't get firmware update for couple of years, go to the Dell support page and download update. Unfortunatly, you'll need Windows machine with a diskette unit and two diskettes. Update of PERC firmware is needed for getting anything out of your new Ubuntu 8.04. This is also true for all other distributions with newer kernels.
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posted by ivoks at
11:51
9 Comments:
"Please make sure you have the latest Firmware in your Adapter. I'd hate to make
any changes just because you are using obsolete Firmware."
This is godawful. They ask you to have access to a windows machine so you can use your linux. WTF. Might as well upgrade to Windows and skip linux to begin with. If the machine worked before with Linux and it doesn't after a kernel update they shouldn't ask you to do something that require a proprietary OS, they should go back to whatever the fuck was working correctly.
Linux is fucked up anyway since 2.6 became the stable branch. 2.4 was much better, even though it still managed to add too much new functionality in its lifetime. Since Project Indiana from Sun was announced I am waiting and drooling over the idea of a usable Solaris desktop and can't wait for it to become stable.
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Anonymous, at 3:13 PM
Well, if someone, DELL forces you to use windowse, so you could update your firmware. You don't need windows on server, just on a workstation, so you could create 2 floppy disks from which you would boot firmware upgrade software.
And, if a bug in kernel was fixed, which unmasked a firmware bug, it's much better to fix firmware too. IMHO, it's better to have everything fixed than everything broken.
I didn't try booting Solaris on this machine, but most probably it would have problems too, cause RAID firmware was had broken logic.
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ivoks, at 3:46 PM
You can update your BIOS from within Ubuntu, Dell worked on that a while ago. See:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DellBIOS
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MagicFab, at 4:00 PM
Mmhh... the link for BIOS updates I just gave seems to be for Feisty, Gutsy or Hardy (not Dapper), so the original post may be right that Windows is required to do the intitial firmware update when running Ubuntu 6.06.x.
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MagicFab, at 4:13 PM
Here is how to update your BIOS without using Windows, but only Open Source Software (FreeDos in this case):
http://vale.homelinux.net/wordpress/2008/03/18/how-to-update-your-bios-on-linux/
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Anonymous, at 5:26 PM
Just one note; it's not BIOS firmware that needs upgrade, but a RAID controller's.
Other than that, Dell's floppy tool works with wine. I just didn't have floppy drive on my laptop to test it or create floppies.
Also, there are some Dell's tools for firmware upgrade that work on Linux. So, things aren't that negative as one can think.
Anyway, point of this post wasn't about the problem of using Windows to create floppies. It was about warning people that they might have problems after upgrade of their server and letting them know that there is a solution that would get them back on the track.
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