Artesyn ATCA-7365 Installation and Use (November 2014) - Manual (Page 128)

BIOS
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In main initialization phase (DXE phase) only U3 is glowing alternately red, green and orange.
U1 and U2 are set to the default value: base Ethernet interface link and activity LEDs.
Shortly before closing BIOS and starting an operation system, LED U3 is set to OFF.
4.11 Upgrading the BIOS
A BIOS upgrade kit for the blade is available. This allows the BIOS to be upgraded. The BIOS
upgrade kit contains documentation which describes in detail how to upgrade the BIOS.
Update tool for Linux is provided with Basic Blade Services (BBS). For details on how to upgrade
BIOS from Linux, please refer to Basic Blade Services Software for the ATCA-7365 Programmer’s
Reference.
The BIOS can also be upgraded via IPMI - HPM.1 (Hardware Platform Management IPM
Controller Firmware Upgrade). For more information, refer to
Firmware Upgrade .
4.12 BIOS Error Logging
BIOS supports the following methods to report errors:
 SMBIOS error logging
 IPMI event logging
 Error logging to the console
4.12.1 Runtime Error Logging
BIOS supports Runtime Error Logging for memory errors and PCI errors. See Advanced ->
Runtime Error Logging on page 118 . Errors are logged to the IPMI controller and to the SMBIOS
event log.
After performing a BIOS upgrade or after restoring a corrupted BIOS image, all BIOS settings
are reset to their default values except for parameters that are stored in IPMC storage area.
See
Table "System Boot Options Parameter #100 - Supported Parameters" on page 246 .