I started the IMPI console, and it showed a BIOS screen on the Recovery page. My cheap USB key didn't have an indicator light, so I released the Ctrl and Home keys after 30 seconds, and shortly after I heard the two beeps that supposedly indicated the BIOS recovery had started. I held the Ctrl and Home keys, then selected "Power On Server" via the IPMI web view. I didn't hold out any hope that I could hold down two keys on the IPMI virtual keyboard, so I grabbed the USB keyboard from my Mac and plugged it into the server. Then you must press and hold the Ctrl and Home keys during startup, until you see the USB drive light flashing. This evening, I tried SuperMicro's BIOS Recovery procedure, which involves copying the BIOS file onto a USB stick, and naming it "SUPER.ROM". I consoled myself with a beer, and went to bed, very frustrated. Needless to say, the machine reset during the BIOS update, and that had the well known effect of turning the server into a brick.
I selected "Set Power Reset" in the IPMI console "Power Control" menu, and was horrified a few nanoseconds later to see the BIOS update suddenly start churning away again. I pondered whether this was really the end of the BIOS update, and finally decided that it must have finished.
" message, then nothing happened for a long, long time. I watched on the IPMI console as the BIOS update proceeded. Yesterday evening, I finally got over the hump with the BIOS update, as described above. I'm sure the info I need is buried in this forum somewhere, but my Google-fu isn't strong enough to find it. That is way more than the size of the expanded BIOS zip archives. How large a USB stick do I need? I've got some ancient 64MB ones that I'd like to use for this, if possible. I've tried using diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk3 MBR MS-DOS X10SL7F 0b at the CLI in macOS, but Disk Utility says the resulting USB stick is not bootable.
How would I create a bootable USB stick using macOS 10.13? All the info I've found so far assumes you want to use an ISO to make a bootable USB stick, so they point to tools like UNetbootin. Do I need to add an OS such as FreeDOS, or are the contents of the BIOS zip from Supermicro all I need?
I've downloaded the 3.0a BIOS for each of these boards, and if I understand the directions correctly, I "simply" need to copy the contents of the expanded zip files onto a bootable USB stick. I've probably wasted about 30 hours of my life reading everything I can find about this on the internet, troubleshooting and rebooting dozens and dozens of times with tiny tweaks to the bios settings and the USB every time.I want to update the BIOS on my two servers with Supermicro boards (X10SRH-cF and X10SL7-F).
My windows machine died and all I have to work with is my macbook air to fix it. I could easily use Rufus if I had a windows machine, but I don't. Even worse than above, the bios on my computer doesn't recognize it as a bootable disk at all (it recognizes the USB, but not it's contents), so clearly UNetbootin is adding something important that works when it is formatted to Fat32, but as explained above, Fat32 can't work anyway because m is too big.
Also, I tried downloading software so format my USB to NTFS, except UNETBOOTIN WILL NOT CREATE A BOOTABLE USB FOR NTFS, EVEN IF YOU HAVE SOFTWARE ON YOUR MAC THAT ALLOWS YOU TO READ AND WRITE TO NTFS, AND EVEN IF YOU USE TERMINAL TO SELECT YOUR NTFS DISK, UNETBOOTIN WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO CREATE A BOOTABLE DEVICE ONTO IT (the "OK" button simpy does not work).Ĭopy and pasting the contents of the Windows 10 iso I got from the media creation tool into the formatted USB. I tried using Unetbootin with a ExFat USB but this can't be read by my bios (so even worse than the Fat32 usb which could at least load windows, the ExFat USB can't even get that far). Unetbootin: it will successfully create a Fat32 USB but this is completely useless because the windows 10 media creation tool ISO has a single file over 4GB (m) and Fat32 cannot read any file bigger than 4GB. I've consulted about 10-15 guides so far and none of them have worked.
Currently having a LOT of trouble creating a bootable USB for Windows 10 using Mac.