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Updating the system and BMC firmware
Updating the optional expansion card firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Integrating the Gigabit Ethernet controller into the BladeCenter . . . . . . . 50
Updating the Ethernet controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Blade server Ethernet controller enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Finishing the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 6. Installing the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Preparing a boot device
Preparing the installation source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Post installation configuration
Chapter 7. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Basic checks
Troubleshooting charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Recovering the system firmware code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
System firmware startup messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Checkpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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Using the Advanced Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using Serial over LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the SMS utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Starting SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Viewing FRU information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Updating steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Determining current blade server firmware levels . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Updating the BMC firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the BMC update package
Using the Advanced Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing the system firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The firmware update package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using the package
Updating the system firmware automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing the firmware manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Updating the system firmware images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the update package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Firmware update steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using a boot device on the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring IBM Boot Disk System as a SAS boot device . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring the IBM BladeCenter S unit local drives as a SAS boot device
Using the optional modular flash drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Installing over the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installing from the media tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installing from an ISO image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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Problems indicated by the front panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Power problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Power throttling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Network connection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Service processor problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Checking the boot image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Booting from the TEMP image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Recovering the TEMP image from the PERM image . . . . . . . . . . 66
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