BMC Firmware Update causes 1950 to brick

[Karl Katzke]

It took us a full week of finger pointing -- I would've felt lucky to get off with 10 hours! 

As far as I know, it's the BMC Core update, which is marked urgent. If you don't see this on your service tag, then don't worry about it. If you do see this on your service tag, then apply it to a non-essential machine first in order to test it. ;) As far as I know as of last Friday Dell was working to remove this update from their website. 

-K 

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Karl Katzke
Systems Analyst II
TAMU - RGS


>>> Alex Howells <alex at bytemark.co.uk> 5/27/2008 8:37 AM >>>
Karl Katzke wrote:
> OK, turns out it was the "BMC Core Update", which is marked urgent for all of our 1950 gen 3's service tags under Embedded Server Management on the drivers and downloads page. Dell has acknowledged the problem, will be removing the update from the server's list of updates, and will be replacing our affected motherboards. 
> 
> If you're running Linux and you applied this update, and you're having problems with uptime and it seems to be an APIC issue, you need a new motherboard from Dell. OpenSuSE 10.3 won't even boot, and CentOS 5.1 will kernel panic. 

Any idea whether this affects the BMC update for PE2950 too?  Who is
your contact at Dell on this issue, as I'm sure most folks on the list
don't want to fight through 10+ hours of finger pointing via phone.

Alex