Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Can you get the exact text of the error message or possibly a picture of
the screen? I have not seen this in my testing.
--
Michael 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com 
> [mailto:firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On 
> Behalf Of Chad Scott
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:19 PM
> To: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420
> 
> I'm currently on A03 and A04 is the latest... the tools download the
> RPM and it's installed in /usr/share/firmware, and apply_updates seems
> to work fine.
> 
> However, upon reboot, I see an error that the image failed one or more
> consistency checks.
> 
> Vital stats (CentOS):
> [root at london ~]# uname -a
> Linux london 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 00:17:26 CDT 2006
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> [root at london ~]# getSystemId
> Libsmbios:    0.12.3
> System ID:    0x0173
> Service Tag:  FNBWS81
> Express Service Code: 34062462433
> Product Name: PowerEdge SC1420
> BIOS Version: A03
> Vendor:       Dell Inc.
> Is Dell:      1
> 
> [root at london ~]# apply_updates --yes
> 
> Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
> 
> Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0173) - a03
>         Found Update: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0173) - a04
> 
> Found out of date packages.
> 
> Running updates...
> Installing system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0173) - a04
> 
> After an init 6, I see the error at POST and no update takes place.
> 
> Any thoughts how/why the image is inconsistent?  Any debugging steps I
> should take?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chad
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