Save And Restore System Configuration (Syscfg); Upgrading The Firmware; Running The Firmware Update Utility - Intel SR6850HW4 - Server Platform - 0 MB RAM Product Manual

Server Platform Utilities

Save and Restore System Configuration (SYSCFG)

This command-line utility is used to:
Save a subset of BIOS and firmware settings to a file
Write BIOS and firmware settings from a file to a server
Configure selected firmware settings
Configure selected BIOS CMOS settings
Change BIOS boot order
Display selected firmware settings
Display selected BIOS settings

Upgrading the Firmware

Use the Firmware Update Utility to upgrade the firmware. This utility is a DOS application
program that updates the following server management controllers:
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
Hot-swap Controller (HSC)
You can run the utility interactively by providing commands through DOS, or you can run it in
non-interactive mode by supplying the command with any options. For information on the
command-line options, see Table 8.
Download the latest firmware release from
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/SR6850HW4/

Running the Firmware Update Utility

The following procedure shows how to use the interactive method to upgrade the firmware with the
Firmware Update Utility.
1. Copy the following files to a USB flash memory device or CD ROM. The current files are
available on http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/SR6850HW4/. Download the
following files:
FWPIAUPD.exe
<name>.hex, where <name> is the hex image for the controller being updated. For
example, the files lnbmc11.hex and lnbmc11.txt represent the firmware and release note
files, respectively for BMC release 11. Write down the name of the HEX file. You will
need it later.
Firmwareupdate.txt
<name>.txt
2. Boot to DOS.
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