BMC Firmware Update causes 1950 to brick

[Zhaohui Wang]

Hi ALL

I just update the BMC firmware to 2.05(ESM_FRMW_LX_R182899.BIN),but 4 of my machines saying:
 
This Update Package is not compatible with any of the devices detected in your system.

This is wiered because all my 16 machines are PE1950,

Is there any tricks like turn on something in system BIOS to get it recognized?

Thanks


Best Regards
Zhaohui Wang


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Karl Katzke
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: Alex Howells; linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: BMC Firmware Update causes 1950 to brick
> 
> 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
> 
> ----
> 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
> 
> 
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