Hello, I waited to ask anyone until I had tried any/everything I could think of, and I cant get this IT mode firmware to work. I have a lot of LSI branded 9240-8i cards from Lenovo servers that we never use, and I have yet to successfully flash the firmware. I did wipe one, but have not got the actual flash to work. Things i've tried:
-Freedos boot (gets "Failed to initialize PAL" error). Tried this on three different motherboards, I had to leave the CSM enabled to get it to boot at all, if I turned it off it wouldnt recognize the drive
-UEFI shell . The only one I've got to work is Refind, if I try to initialize a FAT32 GPT drive myself and put the shell in EFI/boot, boot/EFI, or the root it has not worked. I also tried swapping the EFI file out after I write the Refind image, and it just makes it fail to boot. Tried it with theirs and LSI's shell.
-Tried LSI USB tool. Made it, got it to boot, gives same "Failed to initialize PAL" error when i get there.
The only conclusion I can come to is that I probably should be able to get sas2flash.efi to boot directly, but I cant seem to figure out how. The closest I feel I got was booting from Refind and trying to run sas2flash, at which point I got an error that indicated that the shell didnt support the command.
Any suggestions welcome. If anyone can just make a DD image of one they know works, that'd probably be helpful.
-Freedos boot (gets "Failed to initialize PAL" error). Tried this on three different motherboards, I had to leave the CSM enabled to get it to boot at all, if I turned it off it wouldnt recognize the drive
-UEFI shell . The only one I've got to work is Refind, if I try to initialize a FAT32 GPT drive myself and put the shell in EFI/boot, boot/EFI, or the root it has not worked. I also tried swapping the EFI file out after I write the Refind image, and it just makes it fail to boot. Tried it with theirs and LSI's shell.
-Tried LSI USB tool. Made it, got it to boot, gives same "Failed to initialize PAL" error when i get there.
The only conclusion I can come to is that I probably should be able to get sas2flash.efi to boot directly, but I cant seem to figure out how. The closest I feel I got was booting from Refind and trying to run sas2flash, at which point I got an error that indicated that the shell didnt support the command.
Any suggestions welcome. If anyone can just make a DD image of one they know works, that'd probably be helpful.