update HP ML110 G6 Bios, and trying to update the firmware on IBM x3250

download the bios update from HP site, run the setup file, it will create a bootable USB key drive. gone the days of using a bootable cd. I couldn't find my 256MB HP usb key drive at the time, so I used my 4GB rundisk thumb drive. well it will wipe it and format it as new bootable drive.
it will rename the USB key as ROMPAQ. plug in the key to the system, upon reboot, the system will update from the USB drive. of course don't yank the power cable off the PC server in the process.

compared with the IBM x3250, the x3250 firmware seems like a xml file. I haven't got time to figure out how to using it. yeah, the bios is not the traditional one, its called uefi, or uEFI, UEFI whatever the fancy name.


here is the filelist ROMPAQ,

Volume in drive X is ROMPAQ


Volume Serial Number is 06F8-E6D9



Directory of X:\



12/03/2010 03:13 108 AUTOEXEC.BAT

12/03/2010 03:13 66,785 COMMAND.COM

12/03/2010 03:13 24,810 IBMBIO.COM

12/03/2010 03:13 30,880 IBMDOS.COM

12/03/2010 03:13 13,671 ldlinux.sys

23/02/2010 13:54 1,397,603 CPQO2702.43A

23/02/2010 13:54 29,288 CPQSRVR2.CPU

12/03/2010 03:13 512 fat32lba.bss

12/03/2010 03:13 45,341 kernel.sys

28/04/2009 10:09 1,246 Readme.txt

23/02/2010 13:54 105,463 ROMPAQ.EXE

12/03/2010 03:13 79 syslinux.cfg

14/03/2010 10:26 0 files.txt

13 File(s) 1,715,786 bytes



Total Files Listed:

13 File(s) 1,715,786 bytes

0 Dir(s) 4,096,057,344 bytes free 
 
 
here is the contente of the autoexec.bat file
 
X:\>type AUTOEXEC.BAT


@echo off

echo ROMPAQ may take a few minutes to get started. Please be patient...

rompaq.exe /l:us /!
 
 
IBMBIO, IBMDOS looks like familiar? that makes me feel I were going back in time back in 1986.
 
interestingly, HP put a linux touch on this update package.