Supermicro X10DRi boot from NVMe (modified BIOS inside)

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Hi, All!


I have bought MB Supermicro X10DRi and AOC-SLG3-2M2 PCIe x8 adapter for two NVMe storages.

Yes, I should have better read info about X10DRi support of AOC storage devices, but now it doesn't matter.

Faced the problem: BIOS doesn't see NVMe-storages as boot devices.

For example, another MB Supermicro X10SRi-F supports booting from NVMe devices. So I decided to modify BIOS.

Searched google, and found some links:
www.win-raid.com

[HowTo] Get full NVMe Support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS

@ all: Please read this before posting into this thread: This thread has been designed by me for users, who want to do the required BIOS modification themselves by following this guide. Users, who want to get an already modded BIOS, may search for it within >this< Sub-Forum or post their...
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I have downloaded latest BIOS for X10DRi and modified it with UEFITool v0.28.0 + NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs.
After that I flashed it.
Now BIOS sees NVMe-storages as boot devices(Boot section of BIOS).

If you are not sure of BIOS flashing it would be better to get IPMI license to get opportunity for BIOS flashing through IPMI(in that case you will be able to flash BIOS even if corrupted one).

Modified BIOS for X10DRi with NVMe-storages support as boot devices

For info.
I used Intel 760P and Samsung 970 as NVMe storages, and BIOS can see them.
 
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How did you get this working? I attempted to follow the instructions and
1) There is no CSMCORE text string present in the BIOS
2) Loading the BIOS x10DRi0.514 into UEFITool 0.28.0 shows a message at the bottom (parseFile: non-empty pad-file contents will be destroyed after volume modifications) - there is a warning in the instructions not to proceed if this happens
3) I tried your image via the IPMI and got 'can't find FID string' when loading it, so it wasn't even possible to flash it.

EDIT: First I updated to a non modified version of X10DRi.514, then updated to your version and it worked! I would still like to know how you accomplished it so I can repeat in the future.
 
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If I remember it right, I also have got similar error during BIOS flashing through the IPMI. Googled and have found somewhere at supermicro forum that needs to update BMC IPMI Firmware to get rid of that error. So I have flashed BMC IPMI Firmware to the latest one and after that no error occured during BIOS flashing through IPMI.

Be careful while flashing BMC IPMI firmware, need to do exactly what is written in instruction for flashing, especially careful with checkboxes. I haven't been careful, and after flashing BMC IPMI Firmware had to reset IPMI, nothing scary, just unpleasantly( i had to set all IPMI options anew).


About BIOS modifying.
NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs has been inserted to the end of the padding that contains DXE modules.
You can compare modified BIOS and the original one.
 
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Yes, it looks like the post I have found.
It's good that the problem has been solved quite simple)

In my case if BMC flashing would not help, it would be necessary to unsolder the BIOS chip and flash through the programmer, it's a pity that the BIOS chip is soldered, and not just inserted into the connector on the MB.
Some time ago I have bought that programmer, already have used it for flashing BIOS chip for ASUS P9X79.
 
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Not sure if it's of any use to anyone, but I did this mod on the Supermicro X10DRH-iT Bios, and it's now working. I needed to manually create a boot option for it, pointing to the UEFI boot file, and needed to disable the UEFI shell as a boot option, but it's now working reliably on a board with 2 other nvme drives and six SATA drives attached, which don't appear to cause any interference.

The mod is available here, it's too large to upload to STH:
www.win-raid.com

[HowTo] Get full NVMe Support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS

@ all: Please read this before posting into this thread: This thread has been designed by me for users, who want to do the required BIOS modification themselves by following this guide. Users, who want to get an already modded BIOS, may search for it within >this< Sub-Forum or post their...
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FYI, I did this successfully on the X10DRI using:
File Name: X10DRi1.816.zip
Revision: 3.4a
Size(KB): 9,396
MMTool 5.02.0025
(version 4 didn't show many of the line names.)
ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2
(No RAID drivers required)
 
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mpyusko said:
FYI, I did this successfully on the X10DRI using:
File Name: X10DRi1.816.zip
Revision: 3.4a
Size(KB): 9,396
MMTool 5.02.0025
(version 4 didn't show many of the line names.)
ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2
(No RAID drivers required)
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can you share bios?
 
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mpyusko said:
FYI, I did this successfully on the X10DRI using:
File Name: X10DRi1.816.zip
Revision: 3.4a
Size(KB): 9,396
MMTool 5.02.0025
(version 4 didn't show many of the line names.)
ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2
(No RAID drivers required)
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mpyusko
I have the same configuration. Could you please share modified BIOS 3.4a (X10DRi1.816.zip)?
 
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zorker said:
In case anyone is still looking for this, I just created a bios based off the latest X10DRI1.816. I flashed via IPMI aswell.

mega.nz

4.41 MB file on MEGA

mega.nz mega.nz
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Sorry but i'm new to modding a bios. Every page i visited is saying follow the bios update instructions and because of that I dont know what to do with the .bin file in here. Could you explain how to use it to update the bios.
 
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RolloZ170 said:
check only if you can restore orig. BIOS.

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com www.dropbox.com
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Hey, thanks for getting back to me.

It flashed successfully via ipmi and booted into bios no problem - however I do not see the boot option for nvme, add a boot device doesn't see the new path and I don't see the pcie/pci/pnp config/launch storage oprom policy option as shown in this post: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/nvme-boot-with-supermicro-x9da7-x9dri-f.13245/

Boot Mode is UFEI only, pci devices rom setting EFI for all slots too

Advanced/Boot Feature/ECM Support is disabled as well.

Did not mess with bifurcation - it is set to auto

Advanced/Sata and sSata are both configured to ahci

If it helps, I am using the amazon pci - nvme adapter with a silicon power 1TB. I was able to install the os just fine when booting from usb.

I tried the clover route, but I couldn't get it to see the existing OS - and when I tried to boot either ventroy or a standalone 22.04 install, it would just sit.

Hoping for the best :)
 
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uncharted said:
It flashed successfully via ipmi and booted into bios no problem - however I do not see the boot option for nvme
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works not that way. you see "Harddisk: Windows Boot Manager..." instead of NVMe SSD drive.
your NVMe drive has to be installed with Bootable OS before (boot Installer from USB)
empty drive is not visible.
 
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RolloZ170 said:
works not that way. you see "Harddisk: Windows Boot Manager..." instead of NVMe SSD drive.
your NVMe drive has to be installed with Bootable OS before (boot Installer from USB)
empty drive is not visible.
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Drive has Ubuntu Server 22.04 installed,

I don't see a windows boot manager option either

Only bootable drive that's showing up is the clover sata ssd plugged into one of the front bays
 
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