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IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide 

 Notes: 

1.  It is necessary to upgrade the BIOS on the HS40 to the 1.44 level and the ISMP to 1.24 if you are 

installing Linux on the blade. (See Table 5) There is a problem identified in the 1.32 version of the 
BIOS, related to EFI, which causes processors to be disabled. The only fix for this error is to upgrade 
the BIOS and ISMP firmware.  

2.  Occasionally the boot of the first BIOS diskette will fail with old time DOS messages such as “cannot 

find country.sys.” If you end up at a DOS prompt when booting the BIOS diskette, simply run 
AUTOEXEC.BAT to kick off the update process. If you don’t get a DOS prompt, restart the blade. 

3.  Take care when mounting the second BIOS diskette and try to avoid having to restart the 

Management Module once the update process has begun. If you do encounter and unrecoverable 
error at this point, you should be able to restart the BIOS process from the beginning. The blade will 
most likely boot off of the backup BIOS. In this case, answer ‘no’ when asked if you’d like to backup 
the primary BIOS. 

4.  If these steps are performed after Linux has been installed, it is advisable to confirm that the blade 

reboots back to Linux and not into EFI.  

 

Version 3.0, 3/10/2006  

  

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The BladeCenter Deployment Guide is intended as a personal productivity tool. It is not intended to be comprehensive and is provided for 

guidance only, on an 'as is basis' without warranty of any kind. Please be aware that its contents have not been certified by IBM.