NVMe boot with SuperMicro X9DA7 & X9DRi-F
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Worked perfectly fine for me ! Thank you very much
I have three X9 machines and wanted to add NVME boot capability. I did not find the modified BIOS and did not want to undertake modding all three. Here is the solution I worked out using CLOVER. The X9 Bios is very picky. I have it working, but some issues in the install scripts so I took them down. I plan to repost when I finish a project, and I can get back at it. https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...cro-x9-motherboard-w-o-bios-mod-or-usb.54935/
That'd be nice...but it's not critical. These are ~15 year old boards at this point, the fact that they even work...I really really really really wish these x9 boards had a HTML5 remote console
Keep a Windows machine (physical or VM) handy and Openwebstart + Adoptium JDK 8 + browser integration for jnlp files (all this is easy) and the java console opens up happily.
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Thank you very much!
I've already patched the BIOS twice, but something went wrong this time -- the server just wouldn't start up or throws a 500 HTTP error code when trying to update the BIOS. I'll keep a copy of my failed patch attempts; maybe we could investigate them together.
BIOS does not give you HTTP errors.
you have issue with your BMC. maybe outdated certs.
Not sure if the issue in your comment is relevant to my situation, so I'd like to add some context. All flashing attempts were performed using IPMI.
- Flashing X9DRi0.630 -- OK, no issues.
- Appended either NvmExpressDxe_5.ffs or NvmExpressDxe_Small.ffs using UEFITool 0.28 on Fedora -- flashing ok, but no boot. The display keeps showing "no cable connected" after power-up.
- Appended NvmExpressDxe_5.ffs using MMTool v4.50.0023 on a Windows PC -- got a 500 error code about 10 seconds after clicking the "Update BIOS" button, it doesn't even gets flashed as far as I see.
- Your file -- works great, exactly like the original, but with NVMe support
Hmm, thanks for the advice. Maybe this is the issue. I'd report here after I try it (in next few days I guess).
Hello again! Extracted NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs from your firmware and tried to append this module to original BIOS firmware of version 630.
Getting the same result as when I tried it before: "cable is not connected" notification doesn't disappear after I power up the sever.
Looks like, there is something that I do in a wrong way.
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Thanks for the samples. Unfortunately, I currently have no extra free time to check them -- I'll try to find out the difference in 1-2 weeks. I will keep you updated.i tried to repeat the action i made that time. looks that i not used UEFITool but "mmtool - 5.0.0.7.exe"
now i made two new ones, one with MMTool, one with UEFITool 0.28(win)
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BTW, maybe you know if there is a way to make BIOS recognize a PCIe USB 3.0 expansion card in the same way as it recognizes NVME drives now? I guess it would be useful to speed up booting Live CDs and other utilities from flash drives.