Hello guys, I have bought an Akamai Epyc mobo (with case and psu), this one (runs with 2nd gen cpu, 1st gen has 0x00 post code and wont boot, which is exactly the same behaviour as on my normal KNPA-U16 flashed for Rome):
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The state is basically the same - there is a bios password entry after DEL button, and pressing enter or filling wrong number, the bios is readonly except for boot override, which helps me to boot my linux installation from an UEFI USB media.
I have read out the bios using flashrom (git version) but each consequent read is different, as if there is something logging into the flash chip.. but I was targetting the AMI bios variable: AMITSESetup which used to hold a xored password on an older system (i7 4th gen quad, COMexpress) which i cracked open easily. But here its zeroes in the bios defaults and not present in the active variable set.
The IPMI wont pull a dhcp IP and ipmitool can not change the ipsrc to static or dhcp, it times out after like 30 sec.
Should we start a separate thread or can this one continue - as the subject and issue is similar?
I need to read through all the pages here, to see if there is a solution though.
EDIT: the password is same - AK4MA1 - looks like why change something that works