{"id":2893,"date":"2018-07-13T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2018-08-03T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T06:44:19","slug":"bios-upgrade-on-dell-poweredge-t20-via-amt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2018\/07\/bios-upgrade-on-dell-poweredge-t20-via-amt\/","title":{"rendered":"bios upgrade on Dell PowerEdge T20 via AMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>prepare the floppy image file that later can be mounted via AMT, include in it just the bios update file &#8211; in my case it was PET20A18.exe from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/home\/us\/en\/04\/drivers\/driversdetails?driverId=MFKMC\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nmkfs.msdos -C \/tmp\/imagefile.img 14400\r\nmkdir \/media\/floppy1\/\r\nmount -o loop \/path\/imagefile.img \/media\/floppy1\/\r\ncd \/media\/floppy1\/\r\nwget https:\/\/downloads.dell.com\/FOLDER05054865M\/1\/PET20A18.exe\r\ncd ..\r\numount \/media\/floppy1\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>once the file is ready use the Manageability Commander Tool > Remote Control > Take control mount such img file as a virtual, oversize floppy. Using the Launch Viewer connect via VNC, keep on pressing F12 while rebooting server and select from the boot menu &#8216;BIOS Flash Update&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/boot-menu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/boot-menu.png 675w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/boot-menu-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>click on the &#8230; icon and select the bios image from the virtual floppy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/flash.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/flash.png 550w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/flash-300x273.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>let it reboot, wait 5 minutes and the bios update is finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prepare the floppy image file that later can be mounted via AMT, include in it just the bios update file &#8211; in my case it was PET20A18.exe from here. mkfs.msdos -C \/tmp\/imagefile.img 14400 mkdir \/media\/floppy1\/ mount -o loop \/path\/imagefile.img \/media\/floppy1\/ cd \/media\/floppy1\/ wget https:\/\/downloads.dell.com\/FOLDER05054865M\/1\/PET20A18.exe cd .. umount \/media\/floppy1\/ once the file is ready use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-unimportant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}