BMC is in FW Transfer Mode

This is a message that I get when trying to remotely update the BIOS on Jefferson Pass systems equipped with Intel S2600JF mother boards and Intel E5-2690 Sandy Bridge CPUs. The solution is to do BMC cold reset using ipmi and wait for 30 seconds:

ipmitool mc reset cold

If IPMI kernel module happens not to be loaded, then load it with this command:

modprobe ipmi_devintf