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When the update is finished, a confirmation message appears and an entry is
placed in the Advanced Management Module log.
10. Power up and boot the blade server.
Note: QS22 firmware contains a proprietary implementation of Cell Broadband
Engine
™
hardware initialization code.
Installing the system firmware
System firmware can only be installed after the operating system has booted. If the
operating system is not installed or cannot boot, then no upgrade or recovery is
possible. See the other sections of the manual Chapter 7, “Solving problems,” on
page 61 for further information about troubleshooting the QS22 blade server.
You can update the system firmware:
v Through IBM Director. See the IBM Director documentation on the IBM Director
CD for further information.
v
Using the update package available from http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/. See
“Updating the system firmware automatically” on page 49 for further information
on how to perform an update.
v
Using the
update_flash
script available on supported Linux operating systems.
This requires the system firmware image file. See “The firmware update
package” on page 48 for information about how to extract the file.
v Updating the firmware manually. See “Installing the firmware manually” on page
49 for further information.
For all the above options Linux needs to have a current version of rtas_flash
device driver installed. This is normally installed with the operating system. If it is
not, see the installation guide for the Software Development Kit for Multicore
Acceleration for instructions about how to get this device driver and install it.
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