This builds an image file which, when booted from a USB on a machine with an LSI 9217-4i4e Host Bus Adapter (HBA), will automatically flash the HBA with IT firmware.
By default, the flashing utility flashes both firmware and bios. This allows booting from an HBA-attached disk, but may result in slow boot times. To get in faster boot times, but disable booting from the HBA, you can flash just the firmware via ./build.sh --disable-bios.
- Docker for building the image
- A USB to write the image to
- An LSI 9217-4i4e connected to a UEFI motherboard
These steps are for building on a Linux host. The image can also be built and flashed from a Windows or Mac, but those steps are not listed here.
- From the project directory, build the image
# Firmware + BIOS ./build.sh # Firmware only: ./build.sh --disable-bios
- Flash the resulting image to a USB
dd if=flasher.img bs=4M status=progress of=/dev/<your usb>
- Boot the USB on the target machine, and wait for the startup script to flash the new firmware
- Enjoy!
- qemu
Run ./debug.sh to boot the image with QEMU. While the flashing process will fail, it can be used to debug boot issue with the image and UEFI script