# [OmniOS-discuss] Supermicro BIOS updates

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Thu Jul 11 00:21:12 UTC 2013

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    On 7/9/2013 1:25 AM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:

    > Get something like Boot Flash DOS (BFD.exe) and create a bootable USB
    > stick in Windows.

    Meh, involving Windows in the process ;)?

    > and execute whatever monkey business you need to. I personally prefer a
    > simple DOS flashing tool over some super-smart EFI clusterf**k any day
    > of the week.

    Although they have other faults, I've been pretty happy with
    firmware/bios updates on my Sun servers, you can just use the bmc cli to
    suck the update over via tftp, and it installs both the bmc/ipmi
    firmware and the bios from one package.

    I think I'm going to try using unetbootin to build a FreeDOS USB image
    and see how that works out. I was originally going to use the virtual
    media, but found a few horror stories about that flaking out in the
    middle of flashing, which doesn't seem like a good thing to have happen
    :(. It's not too much trouble to physically visit the machine and shove
    in a USB stick.

    Thanks…

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