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On the IPMI home page for the machine being updated, find the 'BIOS Update' menu item.  For the drp-srcf-cmp* machines, it is in the Maintenance menu, as shown in IPMI page.  This allows you to browse to the BIOS file and initiate its loading.  After a while the loading will complete and you will be asked whether the system should reset.  Go ahead and do so, being prepared to again stop the boot process at the BIOS setup stage as described in Invoking the BIOS, above.  Since a number of the BIOS parameters will have been reset to their default values, they will now need to be reconfigured to their old settings.  Note that in the new BIOS version, some parameters may have disappeared, moved to different subsections, renamed or reordered with respect to the old version.

For BIOS v2.3, the parameters that needed restoring were:

  • Boot Feature: Restore on AC Power Loss:      Stay Off
  • Boot Feature: Power Button Function:            4 Seconds Override
  • CPU Configuration: SMT Control:                   Disabled
  • PCI... Config.: ... Slot 1 ... Bifurcation:             x8x8
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr A: DevCfgMenu: Number of VFs per PF:     8
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr A: DevCfgMenu: Energy Eff. Enet:               Disabled
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr A: DevCfgMenu: DCB Protocol:                   Enabled (IEEE Only)
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr A: MBACfgMenu: Legacy Boot Protocol:     PXE
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr A: MBACfgMenu: Pre-boot Wake On LAN:  Enabled
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr B: DevCfgMenu: Number of VFs per PF:     8
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr B: DevCfgMenu: Energy Eff. Enet:               Disabled
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr B: DevCfgMenu: DCB Protocol:                   Enabled (IEEE Only)
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr B: MBACfgMenu: Legacy Boot Protocol:    PXE
  • Supermicro ... Enet Ctrlr B: MBACfgMenu: Pre-boot Wake On LAN: Enabled

In addition, the Boot options on the Boot tab need to be modified.  Easiest may be to first go into 'UEFI NETWORK Drive BBS Priorities' and move the IB option to be last.  Then go back to the Boot options and change the options to:

  • UEFI USB Key
  • UEFI Hard Disk: RedHat Boot Manager
  • UEFI Network:(B198/D0/F0): UEFI PXE IPv4 Supermicro (First Ethernet Controller)
  • Set remaining options to 'Disabled'