No system inventory in IPMI interface for new Asrock Rack ROMED8-2T mobo and Epyc 7443P cpu

[Dolpa]

Very interesting. As You wrote once successfully updated the BMC so the chip is work.

 

[Keith Myers]

I wonder if it is because I am on the beta BMC F/W that support sent me back in May when I announced I was getting a Milan cpu.

If I could backlevel to the 1.10 BMC F/W that the board shipped with, I wonder if the SOCFLASH would work.

The 1.11 F/W is working fine except for System Inventory. I'm being OCD for the reason all the features in the IPMI "should " work.

They do on the EPYCD8 board.

 

[ectoplasmosis]

I’m having the same issue trying to update from BMC FW 1.11 to 1.19; stuck at error “Cannot find device”.

Asrock support have offered to post new flash chips...

 

[Keith Myers]

I'll have to contact Asrock support again and see if they will do the same. They told me they had no spare chips and I had to send mine in to them.

 

[Dolpa]

I updated from 1.10. to 1.19. 1.11 maybe some beta version in which there may be some error. Did you try to rollback to the official 1.10? And try to update again to 1.19.

 

[Keith Myers]

Yes. Doesn't find the device also.

 

[ectoplasmosis]

I updated from 1.10. to 1.19. 1.11 maybe some beta version in which there may be some error. Did you try to rollback to the official 1.10? And try to update again to 1.19.

Would you mind detailing the steps you took to flash from 1.10 to 1.19?

Namely, how you created the DOS boot environment, which BIOS settings you used to boot into this, and which version of Socflash?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dolpa]

Would you mind detailing the steps you took to flash from 1.10 to 1.19?

Namely, how you created the DOS boot environment, which BIOS settings you used to boot into this, and which version of Socflash?

Thanks in advance!

1. Make an USB flash drive with Rufus. Choose FreeDOS in Boot selection pulldown menu, that is a bootable DOS.
2. Dowload flashsock.
3. Download BMC 1.19.00 from the MB/Download section.
4. Copy the socflash.exe and BMC firmware files to the flash drive.
5. In the BIOS enable Boot/CSM for legacy support.
6. Boot to FreeDOS and at the DOS prompt type dir to see the legacy 8.3 filename of the BMC firmware.
7. In my case the filename was ROMED8~2.IMA, so I typed “socflash.exe if=ROMED8~2.IMA option=r”.
8. Power off for at least 10 seconds.
9. After power on check the BMC firmware version at BIOS Main page.

More info in FAQ/How to Support AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processor with ROME series motherboard?

 

[ectoplasmosis]

1. Make an USB flash drive with Rufus. Choose FreeDOS in Boot selection pulldown menu, that is a bootable DOS.
2. Dowload flashsock.
3. Download BMC 1.19.00 from the MB/Download section.
4. Copy the socflash.exe and BMC firmware files to the flash drive.
5. In the BIOS enable Boot/CSM for legacy support.
6. Boot to FreeDOS and at the DOS prompt type dir to see the legacy 8.3 filename of the BMC firmware.
7. In my case the filename was ROMED8~2.IMA, so I typed “socflash.exe if=ROMED8~2.IMA option=r”.
8. Power off for at least 10 seconds.
9. After power on check the BMC firmware version at BIOS Main page.

More info in FAQ/How to Support AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processor with ROME series motherboard?

Thank you!

These are the exact steps I’ve been taking to try to update the 13x ROMED8-2T boards I’ve got from 1.11 to 1.19, with no luck.

 

[Dolpa]

Both of you has an BMC 1.11 FW which is not recognized by socflash.exe. Seems that 1.11 has a serious bug and update is does’t work. If the downgrade to 1.10 is fail too that’s a big problem.

 

[ectoplasmosis]

Both of you has an BMC 1.11 FW which is not recognized by socflash.exe. Seems that 1.11 has a serious bug and update is does’t work. If the downgrade to 1.10 is fail too that’s a big problem.

I have just tried upgrading a fresh-out-the-box board on 1.10; no joy, same error message.

 

[Keith Myers]

I have just tried upgrading a fresh-out-the-box board on 1.10; no joy, same error message.

Same here. No go trying to revert to 1.10 BMC from 1.11 so I could try 1.10 >> 1.19
No device found.

 

[Dolpa]

They spoiled something again. This is not the first time, I made a half brick after trying to update the onboard X550 NIC with official intel firmware. Long story.

 

[Keith Myers]

The new 1.19 BMC chip fixed the System Inventory issue. Very different IPMI interface compared to the one on the EPYCD8 board now.
Need to explore how to use all the new features.

 

[cboles]

The new 1.19 BMC chip fixed the System Inventory issue. Very different IPMI interface compared to the one on the EPYCD8 board now.
Need to explore how to use all the new features.

Hmmm. I have been on 1.20 and 1.49 BMC version for a while now and I still don't have a working system inventory for either 7742(ES) or 7713 CPUs.

 

[ectoplasmosis]

The new 1.19 BMC chip fixed the System Inventory issue. Very different IPMI interface compared to the one on the EPYCD8 board now.
Need to explore how to use all the new features.

That’s good to know, thanks for the update. Hope the 13x chips Asrock promised me arrive soon!

 

[Keith Myers]

Thinking you typoed all your numbers. The latest on the website for the board is:
BIOS: 3.20
BMC: 1.19
I have the L3.24 BIOS from support matched with the 1.19 BMC. Was told that was the combination that would allow System Inventory to work.

 

[Keith Myers]

That’s good to know, thanks for the update. Hope the 13x chips Asrock promised me arrive soon!

William said he gave the chips to Shipping on Monday. Mine arrived today.

 

[ectoplasmosis]

My flash chips have also just arrived, will be fitting them on Monday.

Great service by Asrock.

 

[Keith Myers]

Just a head's up FYI. You will see lots of OData server configuration activity on the first restart after installing the new BMC chips.

Seems to be part of the Redfish protocol that was put in place in the new F/W.

Still trying to get a concise answer out of support about what is taking place.

There is a new USB network interface apparently put in play by the F/W.