AOCFlash Target BIOS version 1.69. 1. Installed Windows 2003 on
the server! However at this point Dell updates for windows would
not work throwing incompatibility error. 2. From Dell website
downloaded Floppy ESM firmware v 1.28. (ESM - Embedded Server
management - BMC)3. Copied it to a bootable DOS Floppy .IMG image
file and attached it as remote media through BMC console. There are
two folders KCSFlash and SOCFlash in that floppy. I used firmware
from SOCFlash. I do not remember exactly, but I think I flashed it
with SOCFlash/dos/flash8.bat At this poing BMC resets and its NIC
has to be set to SHARED mode and IP address configured again.4.
Than power cycle the whole chassis. (After each firmware flash, the
BMC has to be powered off or it will be unstable)5. Now downloaded
the Floppy BIOS v1.69, copied it to the same bootable DOS image
file and attached it again as remote media. The FBIOS.BAT would not
work. Error: Incompatible ROM ID (or something like that) You have
to execute the following command: afudos 6100v169.ROM /p /b /n /c
/x The /x switch tells it to skip ROM ID compatibility check. The
BIOS flashed successfully and BMC worked but when I went to system
BIOS and saved it the BMC configuration disappeared and could not
be set anymore. I would type IP click save but after reboot, it was
not there.
