Flashing Firmware And Option Rom; Preparing Usb Flash Drive - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter XXV. Unified Boot

Flashing firmware and option ROM

Depending on the boot mode selected, Chelsio Unified Boot provides two methods to flash
firmware and option ROM onto Chelsio adapters: Flash utility cfut4 for Legacy mode and HII for
uEFI mode. On HP machines, you can also use Firmware Manager Protocol (FMP), in addition
to HII. These methods also provide the functionality to update/erase Hardware configuration
and Phy Firmware files.
3.1.

Preparing USB flash drive

This document assumes that you are using a USB flash drive as a storage media for the
necessary files. Follow the steps below to prepare the drive:
i. Create a DOS bootable USB flash drive.
ii. Create a directory CHELSIO on the USB flash drive.
iii. If you haven't done already, download the driver package from
iv. Untar the downloaded package and change your working directory to OptionROM directory.
[root@host~]# cd <driver_package>/Uboot/OptionROM
v. Copy all the files and place them in the CHELSIO directory created on the USB flash drive.
vi. Plug-in the USB flash drive in the system on which the Chelsio CNA is installed.
vii. Reboot the system and go into the BIOS setup.
viii. Make the USB flash drive as the primary boot device.
ix. Save the changes.
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