On 08/10/2010 09:31 AM, Johnson, Je wrote:
Helge,
Unable to recover the server that was corrupted yesterday. I’ve followed the procedures provided by Supermicro and I’m going to have to send back the server to be re-flashed. During my initial testing I back leveled the BIOS to 1.0B and with “flashrom” I was able to move the BIOS to version 1.1 and it boot just fine. My second test which caused the corrupted state was a change in a setting of the 1.1 BIOS (to ensure if an maintainer makes a BIOS change I can recover by loading up the original settings) and a reboot which work. When I reload 1.1 with the original settings it finished correctly but now I’m failing to boot?
Thanks again,
John
Hello,
Just to double-check: you've tried the "Boot Sector Recovery from a USB Device" in section 4.7.1 in the X8DA3 manual without success? (That section is a little mis-named...) It says, "This feature allows the user to recover a BIOS image using a USB device without additional utilities needed."
Also, do you have any of the flashrom logs handy? Could you get a `lspci -nnvvvxxx' from another identical machine? Another thing to keep in mind for future flashrom runs is the '-V' flag, which produces verbose output and can be useful for debugging.
Thanks,
Josh