We have numerous Dell PowerEdge R620’s each with CentOS release 7.7.1908 (Core) Kernel 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64.
On all of them, updating the BIOS using the downloaded Dell update package or using DSU the update fails with the following message: Server BIOS 12G The version of this Update Package is newer than the currently installed version. Software application name: BIOS Package version: 2.8.0 Installed version: 2.7.0 Executing update... WARNING: DO NOT STOP THIS PROCESS OR INSTALL OTHER PRODUCTS WHILE UPDATE IS IN PROGRESS. THESE ACTIONS MAY CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO BECOME UNSTABLE! terminate called after throwing an instance of 'unsigned char' /opt/dell/updatepackage/BIOS_WJ5N7_LN_2.8.0.BIN-1058.ZxQDQl/spsetup.sh: line 1392: 1827 Aborted $cmd "$@" . The update failed to complete BIOS_WJ5N7_LN_2.8.0 could not be installed Done! Please run 'dsu --inventory' to check the inventory Exiting DSU! Please advise on how to get around this issue. Best regards, Fred Fred Kienker [email protected] P: 770.518.6166 AT4B 5261 Sunset Trail Marietta, GA 30068 "Advanced Technologies for Business" This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail or by telephone at 1.770.518.6166, and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk. This communication is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. sections 2510-2521. Thank you.
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