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Joined: Jan 1, 2012 Messages: 19 Thanks Received: 3 Trophy Points: 6 I've just upgrade to FreeNAS 9.3 and saw a warning error regarding firmware and driver version mismatch. I went through a lot
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- FreeNAS SAS2FLASH (can't convert IR to IT) - FreeDOS (Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program) - Windows Boot Disk (Erase flash command not Supported on this platform.) I've read that is highly recommended to have the sas2flash.efi download firmware version to match the driver version. So I was wondering if a better way for upgrade / re-flash can be provided? YTKColumba, May 10, 2015 #1 SweetAndLow Sweet'NASty Joined: Nov 6, 2013 Messages: 3,104 Thanks Received: 345 Trophy Points: 81 Occupation: Software Development Engineer you need to get the file that is called sas2flash.efi and place that along with the firmware file that ends in .bin onto the root of a flash drive freenas sas2flash then when in the bios the sas2flash.efi shell will appear as a boot option. Once you boot from this you can follow the directions to flash as normal. My motherboard didn't have a built in efi shell and i spent way to much time learning about everything before i found this solution. Show : First System Build FreeNAS-9.2.1.9-RELEASE-x64 || Platform Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V3 @ 3.3GHz Memory Crucial 1600Mhz 16301MB ECC CT2KIT102472BD160B || Chassis Fractal Design Node 304 Disk WD-Red - 6x3TB || Motherboard ASRock E3C226D2I || UPS CP1000CPFLCD Show : Current System Build FreeNAS 9.3.1 || CPU: Intel Xeon e5-1650 || 4x16GB Samsung DDR4-2133 M393A2G40DB0-CPB || Supermicro 846e16-r1200b || X10SRL Show : Recommended Reading cyberjock's: Hardware recommendations (read this first) dlavigne's: ZFS Primer cyberjock's: Slideshow explaining VDev, zpool, ZIL and L2ARC for noobs! jgreco's: Building, Burn-In, and Testing your FreeNAS system qwertymodo's: [How To] Hard Drive Burn-In Testing DrKK's: How-to: First Configuration for Small FreeNAS Deployments DrKK's: Guide how much will a proper home freenas setup cost me Bidule0hm's: Scripts to report SMART, ZPool and UPS status, HDD/CPU T°, HDD identification and backup the config Unclefesters: UncleFester Guide SweetAndLow, May 10, 2015 #2 YTKColumba Newbie Joined: Jan 1, 2012 Messages: 19 Thanks Received: 3 Trophy Points: 6 SweetAndLow said: ↑ you need to get the file that is call
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posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/solved-sas2flash-easier-alternative.30789/ them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top “Failed to initialize PAL.” while upgrading an LSI 9211-8i to IT? up vote 1 down vote favorite When attempting to flash my LSI SAS http://serverfault.com/questions/679175/failed-to-initialize-pal-while-upgrading-an-lsi-9211-8i-to-it 9211-8i card on my ASUS H87I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H87 Mini ITX Motherboard, I was able to get through all of the instructions until I was finally ready to flash, using SAS2FLSH.exe. The error reported was: ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program. What would cause this? update uefi share|improve this question asked Mar 29 '15 at 23:29 aronchick 156210 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote Hit my head against the wall (a lot) on this. For me, solved it by: Formatting the USB as freedos (using Rufus) - https://www.all4os.com/windows/create-a-bootable-ms-dos-or-freedos-usb-drive.html Downloading the Shell_full.efi, renaming to shellx64.efi, and putting it on the root of the drive - https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2/EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/X64/Shell_Full.efi Downloading the sas2flash.efi - http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9211-8i.aspx#tab/tab4 Booting to the ASUS bios and loading EFI shell (it's the last step, in the last page on the advanced screen on the bottom of the page, same page as "Save and Reset" Follow the rest of the instructions on this page (http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2014/07/09/
this thread only Search this forum only Display results as threads More... Useful Searches Recent Posts Home Forums Forums Quick https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/ibm-m1015-error-failed-to-initialize-pal-exiting-program.8609/ Links Search Forums Recent Posts Resources Resources Quick Links Search Resources http://blog.monsted.dk/ Most Active Authors Latest Reviews Members Members Quick Links Notable Members Current Visitors Recent Activity New Profile Posts Menu Menu Log in ServeTheHome and ServeThe.Biz Forums Home Forums > Hardware > RAID Controllers and Host Bus Adapters > This site uses cookies. By continuing failed to to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Learn More. IBM M1015 - Error: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program Discussion in 'RAID Controllers and Host Bus Adapters' started by JohnnyBeGood, Feb 14, 2016. JohnnyBeGood Member Joined: Oct 10, 2015 Messages: 31 Likes Received: 0 Hi all, I bought this failed to initialize card IBM ServeRaid M1015 46M0861 SAS/SATA PCI-e RAID Controller LSI SAS9220-8i . and followed this guide IBM ServeRAID M1015 Part 4: Cross flashing to a LSI9211-8i in IT or IR mode Specifically this section: "Convert LSI9240(IBM M1015) to a LSI9211-IT mode Type in the following exactly: megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin megarec -cleanflash 0
IBM M1015 RAID controller for my ZFS server, as the old Intel SASUC8I did not support drives bigger than 2 TB. This IBM controller is usually available really cheaply on ebay. It comes with a fairly basic RAID firmware that’ll do mirrors or stripes, but no RAID5. Supposedly, it should hand off non-raid drives transparently to the OS, but i wanted to load the LSI IT firmware that turns it into a dumb HBA instead. This is my process. You’ll need the megarec and sas2flsh tools, the newest firmware for the LSI 9211-8I chipset and a DOS bootable USB stick. The good people at http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/ have created a .zip file with most of what you need, namely megacli.exe, megarec.exe, sbrempty.bin and sas2flsh.exe. You can get the latest firmware from http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/download-search.aspx by searching for the “Host Bus Adapter” 9211-8I, which should get you 2118it.bin. You may want to grab Installer_P15_for_UEFI.zip while you’re there, if you’re using a UEFI based motherboard. More about that one later. VERY IMPORTANT (i think): Before you touch the controller, you have to note the SAS address of the card. You can do this by looking at a label on the card or you can find it with the following command: megacli -AdpAllInfo -aAll Somewhere a little down the wall of text you’ll see something like: HW Configuration ================ SAS Address : 500605b0046c5b90 Note this address for a few steps down the line. When you boot off the USB stick, you first have to wipe the flash memory of the controller with the following commands: megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin megarec -cleanflash 0 After that you reboot and boot back on the USB stick. To load the actual firmware, you run these commands: sas2flsh -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom (You can omit the “-b mptsas2.rom” if you’re not going to boot from the controller and the computer will boot a bit faster) sas2flsh -o -sasadd 500605b0046c5b90 (replace this address with what you got from megacli earlier) Now, the fun part for those with UEFI motherboards. If sas2flsh reports “ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program.” when you try to flash the card, it is unable to do this from DOS. You have to get a UEFI shell (https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk