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Updates that undo themselves

in this fork since v2.7.0

Upstream promotes a new image the moment it boots, which proves the kernel started and nothing else. Here an image boots on trial and is kept only if the board answers properly afterwards.

26updates taken on this board
1rolled back by the board itself
0trips to the rack

the board's own bmcd_firmware_promotion_total counter, 2026-09-12.

The Firmware page: the running slot, the image it can fall back to, and when the gate last promoted one.
The Firmware page: the running slot, the image it can fall back to, and when the gate last promoted one.

The gate asks three questions after a new image boots, not one. Two images this fork built would have passed "did it boot" while being broken, and one of them cut all four compute modules off the network. The one rollback on record was deliberate: an image with its staged note tampered to claim an older version, refused in about 35 seconds.

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