McDATA 8832 - Manual (Page 43)

IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide
Notes:
1. It is necessary to upgrade the BIOS on the HS40 to the 1.44 level and the ISMP to 1.24 if you are
installing Linux on the blade. (See Table 5) There is a problem identified in the 1.32 version of the
BIOS, related to EFI, which causes processors to be disabled. The only fix for this error is to upgrade
the BIOS and ISMP firmware.
2. Occasionally the boot of the first BIOS diskette will fail with old time DOS messages such as “cannot
find country.sys.” If you end up at a DOS prompt when booting the BIOS diskette, simply run
AUTOEXEC.BAT to kick off the update process. If you don’t get a DOS prompt, restart the blade.
3. Take care when mounting the second BIOS diskette and try to avoid having to restart the
Management Module once the update process has begun. If you do encounter and unrecoverable
error at this point, you should be able to restart the BIOS process from the beginning. The blade will
most likely boot off of the backup BIOS. In this case, answer ‘no’ when asked if you’d like to backup
the primary BIOS.
4. If these steps are performed after Linux has been installed, it is advisable to confirm that the blade
reboots back to Linux and not into EFI.
Version 3.0, 3/10/2006 http://w3-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP100564
The BladeCenter Deployment Guide is intended as a personal productivity tool. It is not intended to be comprehensive and is provided for
guidance only, on an 'as is basis' without warranty of any kind. Please be aware that its contents have not been certified by IBM.
43