Hello,

I am brand new to Linux because of my job and I need to update the firmware on an IBM xSeries450.It currently has SAL 3.00 and EFI 1.10 on it. I downloaded
the instructions from IBM site and where I get stuck is where it says to go to the EFI shell, ok I got there.Then it tells me to change to the working directory to where I have the flash utility and firmware? I have the files on a cd from the same ibm site but I can't figure out how to get the thing to read the cdrom? has anybody here done this before?

thanks for any help....

How much does that "EFI" shell differ from, say, bash (which is the normal Linux shell you use, in most cases)? I guess you need to mount the cdrom and then just use some command like [color="red"]cd[/code] (that's what you use in a normal Linux shell to change to some other directory) to get there. To mount a cdrom you need to know where the mountpoint is (like /media/cdrom, if it's created; otherwise create it) or where the device file for it is (like /dev/cdrom).

And please do not post a thread into more than one forum. Duplicate threads do not help anybody so much they'd be worth it (they just take space).