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HP Gen8 Microserver error "Embedded media manager failed initialization" - how to get HPQLOCFG

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Categories: Fix

During the process of installing VMWare on to my Gen8 Microserver, I had trouble writing data to the internal SD card - in fact, I couldn’t even see it. Looking in the ILO Event Logs I saw this:

Embedded Flash/SD-CARD: Embedded media manager failed initialization.

googling this didn’t get me much - just forum posts with people complaining about it, but then i found this HPE Customer Advisory, which lists out the steps needed to reset the error. Basically:

  1. create an XML file with the following content:
    <!– RIBCL Sample Script for HP Lights-Out Products –>
    <!–Copyright (c) 2016 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Development Company,L.P. –>

    <!– Description: This is a sample XML script to force format ll –>
    <!– the iLO partitions. –>
    <!– iLO resets automatically for this operation to take effect –>

    <!– Warning: This command erases all data on the partition(s) –>
    <!– External providers will need to be re-configured if –>
    <!– partition is formatted –>

    <!– Input: VALUE tag: all - format all available partitions –>

    <!– NOTE:You will need to replace the USER_LOGIN and PASSWORD values –>
    <!– with values that are appropriate for your environment –>

    <!– See “HP Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor Scripting –>
    <!– and Command Line Resource Guide” for more information on –>
    <!– scripting and the syntax of the RIBCL XML –>

    <!– Firmware support information for this script: –>
    <!– iLO 4 - Version 2.42 or later. –>
    <!– iLO 3 - None. –>
    <!– iLO 2 - None. –>

    <RIBCL VERSION=“2.0”>
    <LOGIN USER_LOGIN=“Administrator” PASSWORD="">
    <RIB_INFO MODE=“write”>
    <FORCE_FORMAT VALUE=“all” />
    </RIB_INFO>
    </LOGIN>
    </RIBCL>

  2. run that file against the server using HPQLOCFG.exe:
    hpqlocfg -s <server IP> -l c:\hpqcfg.log -f c:\Force_Format.xml -v -t user=Administrator,password=<password>

  3. some other steps to reinstall intelligent provisioning, if you use it.

All well and good - but where do you get HPQLOCFG from? If you follow the link in the article, it refuses to install because i don’t have the full PSP installed. So how can I apply the change?

Well, in my case, I installed VMWare to an internal USB stick and then ran the command from there - you could even do this with all of your other existing drives removed so that they don’t get erased. You could then restart the process. Problem solved!