I had to do this to clear the eeprom on a Dell with IPMI. Sorry it is jumbled.
If you download the freeipmi software, compile it on an Ubuntu system (or debian derivative) which has been updated with libgcrypt11-dev_1.4.4-5ubuntu2_i386.deb and libgpg-error-dev_1.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb packages, you can then do “make install”, cd /;tar cvfz feeipmi.tgz usr/local (you may have to filter out extra libraries/executables), transfer freepmi.tgz to a USB drive as well as libgpg-error0_1.4-2_i386.deb and libgcrypt11_1.4.1-1_i386.deb (note that these are not the developer packages). Download RIP and boot the DCS-1130/Dart Frog/Xanadu II/Power Edge C6100/Inventec 5441 with RIP, mount the USB (mkdir /mnt;mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt), unzip the tgz file to /, run “dpkg-deb –X lib*.deb /” for both packages, cd /usr/sbin;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib;./ipmi-oem Inventec clear-eeprom at24c256 that may do the trick. It looks to take about 30 minutes to run.
If you download the freeipmi software, compile it on an Ubuntu system (or debian derivative) which has been updated with libgcrypt11-dev_1.4.4-5ubuntu2_i386.deb and libgpg-error-dev_1.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb packages, you can then do “make install”, cd /;tar cvfz feeipmi.tgz usr/local (you may have to filter out extra libraries/executables), transfer freepmi.tgz to a USB drive as well as libgpg-error0_1.4-2_i386.deb and libgcrypt11_1.4.1-1_i386.deb (note that these are not the developer packages). Download RIP and boot the DCS-1130/Dart Frog/Xanadu II/Power Edge C6100/Inventec 5441 with RIP, mount the USB (mkdir /mnt;mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt), unzip the tgz file to /, run “dpkg-deb –X lib*.deb /” for both packages, cd /usr/sbin;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib;./ipmi-oem Inventec clear-eeprom at24c256 that may do the trick. It looks to take about 30 minutes to run.
