BIOS Upgrade

This is how I went about upgrading the BIOS of a Dell PowerEdge R710 server. The same process should be applicable to at least other Dell servers.

-- ChrisCooke - 16 Sep 2011

Find your BIOS update

• Visit http://support.dell.com
• "Select a product" and choose "Drivers & Downloads" - you can do this in either order.
  • To select a product, either choose your machine's model or enter the machine's service tag.
• You should now be faced with a list of the most recent downloads. Click "View all".
• Choose a likely-sounding Operating System from the list. Some variety of Redhat Enterprise Linux, for instance.
• Go down to the "BIOS" section.
• to be continued