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Bull BIOS CD 1.0.17

The BIOS CD is only for maintenance purpose. The BIOS CD will assist you to: Flash BIOS, Logo, BMC, FRU, SDR, PIA, SLP string on server and Flash Raid board firmware and also to Read IPMI information

Making a physical CD from an ISO image file :

To create a CD from this ISO image, you must use a software utility capable of writing an ISO file to a recordable media such as CD-R.

Note: Simply copying the ISO file to a CD-R will NOT result in a usable CD.

CD labeling For reference purposes, please label your resulting CD as follows:

 

Bull BIOS CD 1.0.17
Date  : 2008-07-16

 

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Version 1.0.17 - 16/07/2008

Features
- Add "on the fly" CRC for "Group 1" XMS mode. For "Group 1" complete CD CRC is not mandatory anymore.
- Flash duration displayed after server selection (for servers of group 1 )
- Propose to enable Web server of ExpressScope port during BMC flash
    (on R460 E1, R440 E1, T860 E1 and R480 E1).

Updates
- Add T850 E1 (With BIOS 3R23, BMC 00.05 and SDR 00.08)

- Add T860 E1 (With BIOS 3M23 / SDR 00.07 / BMC  00.04)

- 8708EM2 firmware update from package 8.0.1-0020 to 8.0.1-0030 (qualified for all servers)
- On T840 :
    - update firmware of Hot Swap HDD cage SATA/SAS without expander from 2.02 to 2.06
    - Add auto detection of Hot Swap HDD cage technology (SCSI, SAS/SATA with expander, SAS/SATA without expander)
- On 8300XLP, re-add SAS T860 E1 - R460 / R440 customisation for 1068 chip (FW is still 5.1.1-0055)
- On R460 E1 & R440 E1 :
    BMC update from 00.04 to  00.06
    SDR update from 00.05 to 00.05
- On 120Lh,
    Update BIOS from 6.0.5N64 to 6.0.5N66 (fix KVM problem after BMC firmware update)
    Note: after a complete flash of 120Lh, remote KVM with work properly but only using JRE 1.4 or 1.5, not the 1.6.

 

This CD is replaced by version Bull BIOS CD 1.0.18 (August 2008)

Pour le fichier BULL_BOOT_CD_v1.0.17.zip
CD ISO file (ZIP format)
Pour le fichier servers_supported_and_bios_versions_bull_1-0-17.1.txt
Release note

Downloads :

 Title   Size   Modified 
Reflecto File servers_supported_and_bios_versions_bull_1-0-17.1.txt 20.6 KB Jul 22, 2008 03:54 PM
Reflecto File BULL_BOOT_CD_v1.0.17.zip 152.3 MB Jul 22, 2008 05:59 PM
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