BIOS update on Dell PowerEdge R710

BIOS update on Dell PowerEdge R710 

Current Installed version: 2.0.11

1. Grab the latest version of BIOS update for R710 Here
2. In my case I downloaded Update Package for Red Hat Linux.
3. Put it into a pen drive.
4. Booted Dell Systems Management Tools DVD
5. F3 to get the console
6. Get the devices name
   fdisk -l
7. Create a directory to mount the pen drive.
   mkdir /mnt/pendrive
8. Mount
   mount /dev/sdc1  /mnt/pendrive
9. Now run the update
   ./XXX_BIOS_XXXXX_XXXX_X.X.X.BIN

Read the release information before proceed and make sure not shutdown or reboot. 

Continue? Y/N:Y
Executing update...
WARNING: DO NOT STOP THIS PROCESS OR INSTALL OTHER PRODUCTS WHILE UPDATE IS
IN PROGRESS.
THESE ACTIONS MAY CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO BECOME UNSTABLE!
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The BIOS image file is successfully loaded. To apply the BIOS update
successfully, the OMSA data manager service is stopped in case it is already
running. Do not shutdown, cold reboot, power cycle, or switch off the system
before the BIOS update is completed. Restart the system for the update to
take effect. The update remains incomplete until the system is rebooted.
Would you like to reboot your system now?
Continue? Y/N:Y

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Mon Aug 27 07:50:46 2012):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
BusyBox v1.2.0 (2008.05.26-10:41+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: init

Init is the parent of all processes.

I got a successful update. Do it only if you know what you are doing.