diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/obmc-flash-bmc b/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/obmc-flash-bmc
index 40ec068..da62b10 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/obmc-flash-bmc
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/obmc-flash-bmc
@@ -259,13 +259,19 @@
 }
 
 ubi_setenv() {
+    # The U-Boot environment maintains two banks of environment variables.
+    # The banks need to be consistent with each other to ensure that these
+    # variables can reliably be read from file. In order to guarantee that the
+    # banks are both correct, we need to run fw_setenv twice.
     variable=$1
     if [[ "$variable" == *"="* ]]; then
         varName="${variable%=*}"
         value="${variable##*=}"
         fw_setenv "$varName" "$value"
+        fw_setenv "$varName" "$value"
     else
         fw_setenv "$variable"
+        fw_setenv "$variable"
     fi
 }