How to Update Firmware Package on an Intel® Server System M50CYP2UR208

Unable to find instructions to complete a System BIOS update on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) shell.

EFI Shell Installation:

General Installation Procedure:

1. Unzip the contents of the update package and copy all files to the root directory of a removable media (USB flash drive).
2. Insert the USB flash drive to any available USB port on the system to be updated.
3. Power on the server and boot into uEFI shell.
4. Firmware update process will be started with Startup.nsh running automatically.
5. Once BIOS update process has successfully completed, system will reboot automatically and will take around 10 minutes with the screen off, after that time the server will turn on again.
6. After first reboot and post screen, the server could be rebooted a second time.

Verifying Updates:

1. After the final update has been completed successfully, reboot the system.
2. During POST, hit <F2> Key when prompted to access BIOS Setup Utility.
3. From BIOS Setup Utility main menu, verify the BIOS revision is the same as updated.
4. Move cursor to SERVER MANAGEMENT menu and hit <Enter>.
5. Move cursor to SYSTEM INFORMATION option and hit <Enter>.
6. Verify BMC Firmware revision is correct.
7. Verify SDR revision is correct.
8. Verify ME Firmware revision is correct or boot SUT into EFI shell, run sysfwupdt.efi -i to check SUT active firmware version.

Firmware Update Package (SFUP) for Windows* and Linux*

PREREQUISITES BEFORE RUNNING WINDOWS AND LINUX UPDATE SCRIPTS

Install ipmctl tool in both LINUX* and WINDOWS*

- Windows : Download ipmctl_windows_install_xx.xx.xx.xxxx.exe which is available in the following GitHub* page (use latest) :
https://github.com/intel/ipmctl/

- Linux :

RHEL8

1. Set proxy in your RHEL OS (if required)
2. ipmctl is available in epel-release, add the latest epel-release to your repolist
3. Install ipmctl using following commands:
   1. yum install epel-release or
   2. dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
   3. yum install ipmctl

SLES15 SPx

1. set proxy in your SLES15 OS (if required)
2. ipmctl is available in the following GitHub page (use latest) :
   https://github.com/intel/ipmctl/
   
   Dependencies may include the following:
   libipmctl (available in the above GitHub)
3. ipmctl may have dependencies, find dependencies in the following opensuse repositories :
   http://ftp.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/oss/x86_64/
   
   Dependencies may include the following:
   • i. libndctl
   • ii. ndctl
4. For SLES15 SP2
   1. wget http://ftp.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/oss/x86_64/ndctl-70.1-lp152.7.12.1.x86_64.rpm --no-check-certificate
   2. wget http://ftp.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/oss/x86_64/libndctl6-70.1-lp152.7.12.1.x86_64.rpm --no-check-certificate
   3. zypper install ndctl-70.1-lp152.7.12.1.x86_64.rpm
   4. zypper install libndctl6-70.1-lp152.7.12.1.x86_64.rpm
   5. zypper install libipmctl-02.00.00.3878-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
   6. zypper install ipmctl-02.00.00.3878-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR SFUP INSTALLATION

1. Unzip the contents of the update package and copy all files to the root directory of a removable media (USB flash drive).
2. Insert the USB flash drive to any available USB port on the system to be updated.
   • Windows : Unzip the package, from SFUP directory open a command prompt or PowerShell* and execute startup.bat.
   • Linux : Unzip the package, from SFUP directory open a terminal and execute sh startup.sh.
3. Once BIOS update process has successfully completed, system will reboot automatically and will take around 16 minutes with the screen off, after that time the server will turn on again.
4. After first reboot and post screen, the server could be rebooted a second time.
5. Confirm latest version of BIOS update is installed on server system.

EFI Firmware Update Package page under Intel Release Notes