Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420

[Chad Scott]

That's literally what the error says:

"The image failed one or more consistency checks."

I will try to get you a snapshot of the screen the next opportunity I
get to bring the system down.

I tried the .BIN updater available off of the Dell website and got a
slightly different message:

"The image was not found in memory."

On 10/2/06, Michael_E_Brown at dell.com <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> 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 Found out of date packages.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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