IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 POST/BIOS Flash Diskette Version 1.06 Installation README File This README file contains the latest information about installing the IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 POST/BIOS. CONTENTS ________ 1.0 Updating IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 POST/BIOS 2.0 Version Changes 3.0 Trademarks and Notices 1.0 Updating IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 POST/BIOS *Note: If installing from an update package, see additional instructions, in Appendix A. ______________________________________________ The procedure to update the POST/BIOS is as follows: 1. Insert the "IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 POST/BIOS Flash Diskette" into drive A. 2. Start up or restart your IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 server. 3. The system will boot off of the diskette and present a window which allows you the option to flash various options. Choose "1 - Update POST/BIOS". Then choose the number for the language you wish to use during POST and in Setup. 4. After the images are loaded from diskette, you will be asked if you would like to move the current POST/BIOS image to the backup ROM location. If you select 'Y', the current code will be flashed in to the backup bank immediately. 5. After that selection completes, you will be asked if you would like to save the current code to a diskette. If you select 'Y', you need to have a formatted diskette already available. 6. After this completes the system will update the flash ROM with the new code. When this is complete you will be prompted to remove the diskette and hit return to reboot the system. 2.0 Version Changes ____________________ Version Changes ------- ------------------------ 1.06 New release - BIOS revision 6. - System would not boot if first row of memory was disabled by user. - Could not boot Windows 2000 with more than 2GB of memory installed. ------- ------------------------ 1.05 New release - BIOS revision 5. - Added support for the Fujitsu MFM29F016 flash part. - Updated ACPI for release level Windows 2000 . ------- ------------------------ 1.04 New release - BIOS revision 4. - Fixed a problem with 512MB single sided DIMMs in memory slot 8. - Integrated the latest processor patches from Intel. - Fixed a problem of not leaving enough space for PCI adapter resources with 4 GB of memory installed and certain adapters. ------- ------------------------ 1.03 BIOS revision 3. - Changed the memory refresh rate per vendor requirements. - Added support for 256Mbit DRAM technology. - Fixed a potential hang situation when a 184 error is generated. - Added code to give a message when the processors are running at different speeds, and halt if different families of processors are installed. ------- ------------------------ 1.02 BIOS revision 2. - Updated ACPI support for Windows 2000 beta 3. - POP could be set to same as PAP. - Removed option for Virtual Wire Mode PIC mode. - Fix timing problem with hotplug controller. - Fix Chinese Windows NT 4.0 installation hang. - Work around problem with cache on new Intel processors. ------- ------------------------ 1.01 BIOS revision 1. - Updated ACPI support for Windows 2000 beta 3. - Fixed processor cache info reported by SMBIOS in a multi-processor configuration. - Added a menu option to allow the user to specify the amount of time to offset the Service Processor clock from the main system clock. - Fixed a potential hang when POST 185 error code is issued. ------- ------------------------ 1.00 First release. 3.0 Trademarks and Notices ___________________________ THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND MERCHANTABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT. BY FURNISHING THIS DOCUMENT, IBM GRANTS NO LICENSES TO ANY PATENTS OR COPYRIGHTS. Appendix A: Package Specific Installation Instruction This update is packaged as a self-extracting Package for the web (PFW). To unpack, this update requires that your TEMP environment variable be set to a path with read/write access. You must be logged in as an administrator. The command-line syntax for Package-For-The-Web Firmware update package is: Package.exe [-s] [-a [-s] | [-r] | [-c] | [-x directory] | [-xd] | [-w] | [-?] ] [-s] This initial -s tells the Package-For-The-Web software to install silently and will not prompt if files need to be over-written in the %temp% directory. [-a] Tells the Package-For-The-Web software to pass all subsequent commands to the install package (i.e. the update). [-s] The second -s option indicates to run the update silently and unattended. For firmware updates the update is scheduled to run on the next reboot. An immediate reboot can be forced with the -r option. [-r] Schedule the update (can be used with or without the -s option, either way it has the same meaning) and reboot immediately. [-c] Cancel any scheduled firmware update and record results of this operation in the log file. Only one firmware packages can be scheduled at one time, if a firmware update needs to be applied instead of the currently scheduled firmware update package, the user needs to cancel the current (run with the -c option on any firmware package) package and subsequently run the applicable firmware package. [-x directory] Use with firmware updates to extract the update to directory named directory. Since the Package-For-The-Web extracts itself to subdirectory in the %TEMP% directory, a relative directory will be relative to that location. Normally the user will want to specify an absolute directory. [-xd] Use with firmware updates to extract floppy diskette(s). The floppy diskette(s) can subsequently be used to boot and apply the update in the customary "apply update from floppy diskette" fashion. This option is not available for all firmware updates, such as Tape Drive and Hard Disk updates. [-w] The PowerQuest Virtual Boot Environment requires 2 free sectors on the first track before it can schedule a firmware update. Use this option only if scheduling an update failed because 2 free sectors were not found in the first track. This option will wipe or clear the non boot and the non partition information sectors on the first track. These sectors are normally not used. Before clearing the sectors a copy of the complete first track is saved in the %temp% directory from which the update runs. [-?] Display information about the command line switches. Only the apply-update-silently (-s) option is necessarily unattended, that is the other command line options such as display help (-?) may require the user to "hit any key" to continue. If Windows packages are run without any command line options, a GUI is displayed. This GUI offers all the options available at the command line, except that the -w option is not available.