We have a DL380 G6 and we want to put the latest BIOS firmware on a bootable CD-ROM.
The bootable USB installer that HP provides works great, but we want a bootable CD-ROM instead, because we have many servers and a CD is easier to duplicate.
The BIOS firmware we want to install is not available on the latest HP Firmware Maintenance CD.
I've been trying for a couple of hours now and wasted 6 CDs to no avail. Can anyone suggest a workable solution?
Many thanks! Toast
How about this:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3884083&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884082&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4064#12212
(I selected Win2k8_R2 and went to the BIOS section)
To create a bootable CD-ROM you need to prepare the disc. You will need to add Bootfiles to the disc. Here is a simple description of how to do this. You will even find a link there to download the correct bootimage. I did this 3-4 times yet and always used this short howto and the bootimage linked there. Your CD-ROM will appear as drive "A:" after booting. There also is a way to do this with some other images, which provide CD-ROM support, but I never did that, so I can´t tell you how good this works.
HP makes a firemware maintenance DVD to upgrade all firmware on newer servers, not just BIOS.
Here is the link: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=1844067&prodNameId=1844068&swEnvOID=181&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-3380ae888f86436aac54c149eb
Edit: Blah, read too fast. I'll leave the answer here anyways, in case someone else tries to search serverfault for the link.