Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:44:56AM -0700, Chad Scott wrote:
> 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."

By chance are you doing something that can cause the dell_rbu driver
to be unloaded from memory before rebooting?  A straight 'init 6'
shouldn't rmmod dell_rbu, but if that driver is getting unloaded, that
would explain both messages (not found and/or failed checks).

Thanks,
Matt

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