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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<br>
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I am working on BIOS upgrade in my environment, and I tried the following steps to update the BIOS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>I copied my image(bios.tar.gz) to /tmp/images in BMC using SCP method.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>After that, updated the BIOS image using the below dbus command.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph">busctl set-property xyz.openbmc_project.Software.BMC.Updater /xyz/openbmc_project/software/28bd62d9 xyz.openbmc_project.Software.Activation RequestedActivation s xyz.openbmc_project.Software.Activation.RequestedActivations.Active<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>I find the below journalctl logs after updating the image.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Journalctl Logs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">root@tiogapass:~# journalctl | grep image<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Jan 01 00:00:37 tiogapass phosphor-image-updater[229]: Error in mapper GetSubTreePath<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Jan 01 00:27:44 tiogapass systemd[1]: Starting Flash Host Bios image 28bd62d9 to Host...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Jan 01 00:28:09 tiogapass bios-update.sh[1522]: Bios image is /tmp/images/28bd62d9/bios.bin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Jan 01 00:28:09 tiogapass bios-update.sh[1522]: Flashing bios image to mtd6...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Jan 01 00:28:41 tiogapass systemd[1]: Finished Flash Host Bios image 28bd62d9 to Host.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Jan 01 00:28:41 tiogapass phosphor-image-updater[229]: Bios upgrade completed successfully<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In REDFISH, I tried the following command to update the bios image and it shows error.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">#curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST -T /home/bios/bios_18aug.tar.gz https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/UpdateService<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> "Message": "The request failed due to an internal service error. The service is still operational.",<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> "MessageId": "Base.1.4.0.InternalError",<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> "Resolution": "Resubmit the request. If the problem persists, consider resetting the service.",<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> "code": "Base.1.4.0.InternalError",<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> "message": "The request failed due to an internal service error. The service is still operational."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Could you please let me know, if there is any command for BIOS upgrade using redfish?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jayashree<o:p></o:p></p>
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