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We have 8 irvingi systems currently being used as LXC or KVM hypervisors. They're either running gitbuilders or Jenkins slaves for jenkins.ceph.com. They are custom-built SuperMicro chassis with a single PSU.

The irvingi have 8x 2.5“ drive bays per chassis.

WARNING: I had to hand modify/rename the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg files after this BIOS update. udev changed the name from enp11s0f0 to enp8s0f0. I also lost access to the BMC Java KVM so make sure you can get SOL access to the machine/OS.

The Supermicro X10 series BIOS can only be updated in a UEFI shell, Windows, or DOS prompt. I roughly followed this guide to create a bootable DOS image with the BIOS embedded. Here's a brief rundown.

# Download and unzip the BIOS zip file somewhere... then:

wget http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ISO/FDOEMCD.builder.zip
unzip FDOEMCD.builder.zip
cp -r /path/to/BIOS/ /path/to/FDOEMCD/CDROOT/
cd /path/to/FDOEMCD/CDROOT/BIOS/DOS/
mv AFUDOSU.SMC AFUDOS.EXE
mv CHOICE.SMC CHOICE.EXE
mv FDT.smc FDT.EXE
cd /path/to/FDOEMCD
mkisofs -o irvingibiosupdate.iso -p "Silicon Mechanics Support" -publisher "www.siliconmechanics.com" -V "SiMech OEM CD" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -N -J -r -c boot.catalog -hide boot.catalog -hide-joliet boot.catalog CDROOT

I then copied irvingibiosupdate.iso to cobbler.front.sepia.ceph.com:/samba/anonymous and mounted it via the irvingi BMC Web UI and booted to it. Run flash.bat $FW_BIN_FILE. The system will check if a firmware update is needed and put the system board in [Flash Mode] if needed. The system will reboot. Boot back into FreeDOS and run the flash.bat script again.

Basically, read the README and follow prompts.