Awesome work dante4 ! That is really good info ! I am going to add that to the first post ...For everyone who is also looking for this. After ~11 days I finally received the answer from Tyan support:
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Awesome work dante4 ! That is really good info ! I am going to add that to the first post ...For everyone who is also looking for this. After ~11 days I finally received the answer from Tyan support:
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doubt that. the SD Card slot is connected to the BMC (AST2500)Is it possible to use it as a bootable device where I could copy some OS iso file and then install from there to my SATA drives connected?
Got it. Thank you so much for your answer.doubt that. the SD Card slot is connected to the BMC (AST2500)
Just don't upgrade to BMC v4.x unless you are sure you are having a 64MB BMC chip.Can someone suggest please should I bother updating BMC and BIOS to most recent possible versions if my AMD EPYC 7532 CPU is identified and works? It looks like I have some very early versions of BMC and BIOS and I'm afraid that there could be some important security updates in recent versions. However, I'm also worried that if I manage to update to some recent versions of BMC and BIOS then I will break things and my AMD EPYC 7532 Rome model CPU will not work.
My BMC information:
Active Firmware
Build Date
Feb 25 2020
Build Time
15:00:02 CST
Firmware version
1.00
My BIOS information:
BIOS Firmware
BIOS version
V1.00
Build Date
03/05/2020 15:31:05
I just tried to upgrade BMC to v3.00 using file S8030-BMC_v300.zip from the IPMI web interface > Maintenance > Firmware Update > Flash BMC Firmware and it successfully completed the process but did not actually update anything. I still see that my BMC is v1.00Just don't upgrade to BMC v4.x unless you are sure you are having a 64MB BMC chip.
Upgrading BIOS is generally safe. Even if you mess up you can always reflash as long as BMC is not dead. And this board does not have secure bios, which means you can freely downgrade or even mod the BIOS image.
have you entered a very long password ? in some systems the pw is max xx chars long. try to enter only the first 15 or 16 letters...After attempting to update BMC firmware it asked me to change the password again. So I entered a new password twice that looks like this "passWord<3word".the message said "the password successfully updated", but then during login it just does not work "Login Failed". Trying to use "I forgot my password link" outputs "Email ID is not configured for the User".
You should not be uploading the zip file in BMC. You should unzip the BIOS zip and only upload the .ROM file. One drawback of not having secure BIOS is that the BIOS flash in BMC will not do any validation on the file you've uploaded. If you upload the zip it will flash using the zip with successful result but you won't be able to boot.I just tried to upgrade BMC to v3.00 using file S8030-BMC_v300.zip from the IPMI web interface > Maintenance > Firmware Update > Flash BMC Firmware and it successfully completed the process but did not actually update anything. I still see that my BMC is v1.00
Does anyone know what could be the problem?
Also, for my motherboard S8030GM4NE-2T the latest BIOS version available is V2.02 with file S8030GM4NE_2T-bios_v202.zip. I updated it via Maintenance > Firmware Update > Flash BIOS Firmware
Same thing happens, IPMI web interface still reports I have BIOS V1.00
The worst thing is that after a restart the system just does not boot, I see a black screen and "No Signal" message in HTML5 KVM.
Update: I downgraded back to BIOS V1.00, but the system still does not boot.
oops! That is crazy. Thank you so much for the this critical instruction.You should not be uploading the zip file in BMC. You should unzip the BIOS zip and only upload the .ROM file. One drawback of not having secure BIOS is that the BIOS flash in BMC will not do any validation on the file you've uploaded. If you upload the zip it will flash using the zip with successful result but you won't be able to boot.
The BIOS version in BMC will only be updated after the updated BIOS has been successfully booted for once.
a *.ima is fine too.What about BMC firmware flash? I cannot find any .ROM file if I unzip BMC firmware zip file.
Thank you so much! I was able to flash both BMC and BIOS thanks to you.a *.ima is fine too.
Thank you so much!!! How do you know all this? Is there any dictionary in some manual? Do you have any idea about NIC LEDs wires? Should I connect LAN0_LED_P to NIC 1LED and LAN0_LED_L to NIC 1LED (blue cable)?POWER SW (yellow cable) = FP_PWR_BTN_L (11)
POWER SW (purple cable) = GND (13)
POWER LED+ (orange cable) = FP_PWR_LED_PW (1)
POWER LED- (grey cable) = FP_PW_LED_GND (5)
What do all these endings even mean? _P , _L , _PW , _PWR , _DAT , _CLK
_P positive
_L low
_PW power
_PWR power
_DAT SMBus data (I2C)
_CLK SMBus clock (I2C)
LAN0_LED_PDo you have any idea about NIC LEDs wires? Should I connect LAN0_LED_P to NIC 1LED and LAN0_LED_L to NIC 1LED (blue cable)?
Read a basic book on electronics - something that tells you about LEDs and Anode/Cathode and also a book or web pages on electrical circuits, especially talking about color codes (e.g. Where Do I Start? - SparkFun Learn)Thank you so much!!! How do you know all this? Is there any dictionary in some manual? Do you have any idea about NIC LEDs wires? Should I connect LAN0_LED_P to NIC 1LED and LAN0_LED_L to NIC 1LED (blue cable)?