2013/4/15 Andrew Bobulsky <[email protected]> > Hello Joshua, > > On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:52 AM, "Joshua C." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2013/4/15 Michael Brown <[email protected]> > > <snip> > > >> Did you try the patch from my previous message? >> > > I'll try the patch later today (still at work). Yes, I've enabled some > extra features. Actually I wanted a substituation of the stock pxe-stack > with all possible features. I'll post my customizations later on with the > result from the test. > > > I've actually had this problem that you're having, but with the BIOS on my > Gigabyte X58 board (Same NIC and storage devices as you). I started with > two or three different, custom BIOS files, the appropriate tools, and went > to work. Out of all of them, two of the images had *updated *Intel RAID > ROM files--which were a tiny bit smaller (IIRC)--but it never made any > difference. Loading iPXE at boot would prevent the RAID firmware from > doing its thing. > > I recall wondering if it was possible to somehow invoke the option rom > through a bootloader... likely a very cumbersome solution :P > > I do hope that patch works as I'd really like to mod some more BIOSes.. :) > > Best of luck to you, and thanks for testing this out! > > Cheers, > Andrew > > > I heard about the limitations of the x58 chipset. However the proposed patch fixed the problem for me!
-- --joshua
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