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Updating Firmware 6-1
Chapter 6
Updating Firmware
This chapter describes how to update to a later version of system firmware.
Typically, you update system firmware whenever the operating system is
updated. You might also need to update firmware:
• If you add I/O device controllers and adapters
• If enhancements are made to the firmware
• If the serial ROM or RMC firmware should ever become corrupted
This chapter contains the following topics:
• Sources of Firmware Updates
• Firmware Update Utility
• Manual Updates
• Updating from the CD-ROM
• Updating from an OpenVMS System Disk
• OpenVMS and UNIX Network Boots
• Upgrading AlphaBIOS over the Network