Maintaining and repairing the device
6.5 Update the firmware
SIMATIC IOT2050
74 Operating Instructions, 03/2024, A5E39456816-AF
6.5.3 Clean eMMc on IOT2050 (Optional)
To ensure that the device does not hang due to an incompatible operating system, you must
clear
eMMC in the following situation.
mmc1 is the first boot device
You reset the current settings
If your current boot order has
mmc0 or usbx as the first boot device, and you keep the
current settings, you do not need to clear eMMc.
1. Enter mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk1 to clear eMMc.
6.5.4 Install firmware update tool
1. Enter dpkg -r iot2050-firmware-update to uninstall the pre-installed update tool.
2. Go to the directory where you copied the two download files. In this example, go to
directory /mnt by entering cd /mnt.
3. Enter dpkg -i iot2050-firmware-update_x.x_arm64.deb to install the correct
version of update tool.