$ sudo yum install exfat-utils fuse-exfat If you are going to be using a larger USB drive formatted with exFAT, you can used these two commands to install the needed packages on the SLI image: Press F11 to enter the BIOS Boot Manager:Īrrow down to the Hard Drive option and then select the correct USB drive from the pop out menu:
Booting the Dell Support Image and Adding exFAT Support I’ll cover more on exFAT support in a bit. If it is FAT32 then you shouldn’t run into any issues, but if it is exFAT you will need to load some additional packages on the SLI image. You will want to pay attention to the file system format of the USB drive. There’s nothing really fancy to this part, it is just a simple copy/paste job.
Next copy all of the firmwares that were downloaded previously from the Dell Support site to the other USB drive. That’s it, the usb drive should now contain a bootable support image.
Select the correct USB drive and the Dell ISO Image. Download the Support Live ISO Image from Dell. Creating the USB DrivesĬreating a bootable usb drive from the ISO incredibly easy with Rufus, just follow these steps: I am not going to cover the windows method here since it is pretty self explanitory, but just wanted to mention it in case anyone else ran into the same issue. I did run into an issue flashing the PERC 6i RAID controller on the R610 chassis when using a linux based OS, but I was able to flash it successfully using a Windows 2008 R2 image and the Windows version of the firmware. 
Rufus for creating the bootable USB driveįor the firmware downloads I would suggest at least doing the BIOS, RAID Controller and DRAC. To get started, the following items will be needed: This method is not as streamlined or quick as the SUU or Lifecycle Controller methods, however once you have everything downloaded and the USB drives created, the process is still fairly easy and repeatable. However all hope is not lost, and the newest images are still available for download via the Dell support page. Shortly after the last time I posted on updating firmwares on Dell PowerEdge R610, I found out that Dell dropped support for all 11G servers from the SUU package along with the Lifecycle controller packages which basically broke the entire method I posted.
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