BIOS upgrade fail during ONTAP upgrade due to old bundle bios version

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Category:: ontap-9

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Applies to

ONTAP 9

Issue

Node fail to upgrade BIOS and halt to LOADER during ONTAP ANDU.

Warning: Automatic firmware update will start in 5 seconds.



Firmware is being updated.

New BIOS version: 16.9

New LOADER version: 8.1.0

Updating Loader...

Extracting archive loader.zip ..

open successful

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Successfully copied 4063216 bytes

Loader updated to version: 8.1.0

Updated secure boot keys

Current BIOS (16.10) is same/newer than bundled BIOS (16.9)

Use -noversion option to override version checking.

Please wait, the system needs additional 6s to complete the update in the background.

Automatic firmware update skipped (update_flash command failed).

Warning: The boot media contains a newer firmware image (8.1.0, 16.9).

Please run 'update_flash' at the Loader prompt to update your

system firmware (6.4.13, 16.10).

Original BIOS version higher than new ONTAP image bundled BIOS.

LOADER-A> version Variable Name Value -------------------- -------------------------------------------------- BIOS_VERSION 16.10 LOADER_VERSION 6.4.13 LOADER-A> printenv Variable Name Value -------------------- -------------------------------------------------- BT_BIOS_VERSION 16.9 BT_LOADER_VERSION 8.1.0

Performing update_flash from LOADER fail to upgrade BIOS.