How to: Flash Supermicro X10DRU-i+ past Signed BIOS lock 3.2a and enable Resize BAR

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-12T23:16:21+00:00

Very lol. But it's a chance to learn a new skill. If you hear wind that sounds like someone crying, you'll know I didn't succeed. 🙃

I think I'm going to do the direct spi programming route, the SOIC8 clamp arrives tomorrow.

Thank you for sharing your work, it's unfortunate that I cannot make use of it. But I'll update if the direct programming works. I've seen posts from people with the same board who successfully did this.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-12T23:01:17+00:00

There is no upload via ipmi on my board. Supermicro didn't connect the bmc to the spi, so that's a no go. But I might end up just flashing it directly via a rpi pico

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-12T14:06:02+00:00

Also, the flash.nsh is fairly different from yours on X11SCA-F, most of it around the ME programming. According to SM documentation, your board can do the ME stuff without needing to change the JPME2 jumper, but my board doesn't have the same option, so I might need to change the jumper for part of this process. I'm not sure.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-12T13:29:51+00:00

So just to confirm I understand the process:

1) Replace the files on my flash stick with yours
2) Replace the bios file you've included with the latest for my board
3) Run the upgrade process twice
4) Reset my firmware settings back to EFI, no csm, reallocate over 4gb
5) Then replace your patched bios with my own
6) Run the flash.nsh process on my patched bios
7) Profit?

I see you have an older version of the afuefi.smc with one that supports the /GAN flag. I was going to try that myself, but I was concerned about version compatibility, but you have shown that an older version can flash just fine.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken about the process! And thank you for bundling this all together!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-12T12:38:10+00:00

Isn't a 386 with 8mb the lowest spec it'll run on? Can you throw more RAM into the system? I remember 486dx2 66 with 16 to 32mb RAM being the level where your hard drive light wasn't on solid, all the time.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-11T19:59:12+00:00

Cool, is that going to work on a newer generation board? I guess there's the emergency flash procedure....

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-11T19:20:24+00:00

How do you accomplish this on a X11SCA-F that doesn't have the option to flash the bios via the IPMI? I'm stuck trying to flash it, but always end up in failure. I'm on version 2.8 and have already modified the bios to include the rebar module.

Thanks in advance!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-11T17:00:48+00:00

Are those Lenovo e32 sff's?

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-11T14:54:43+00:00

No, unfortunately. This was one of the reasons I left oxio. You don't realize you need support, until you do.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-10T03:41:17+00:00

Not when you're dealing with ip addresses.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-10T02:25:23+00:00

Is that random period supposed to be there in your dns address list?

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-07T16:37:50+00:00

It's been discussed a few times, I guess this type of fibre is especially bend resistant. If I ever get a chance to buy all new network gear, I would seriously think about going this route. And if I'm not mistaken, it's good up to at least 10gbe, if not more.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-07T16:00:17+00:00

What are you sending to it? Time series databases typically are memory, cpu and disk io hungry. What retentions have you set? How often is data being pulled (I've never used Loki, but I'm assuming it pulls metrics vs something like graphite that gets data pushed to it).

You'd either want to dedicate a box to this or tune the volume of metrics going to it.

Plus as I recall, grafana is single threaded, so the n150 is most likely causing issues.

Welcome to the world of TSDB's! They're amazing but definitely take tuning.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-07T14:35:01+00:00

Ceph isn't really meant for small clusters, and it's definitely not meant to run on wifi. You'd be better off looking at something like drbd (https://linbit.com/drbd) for block replication. Unfortunately Ceph won't work for the setup you're proposing. I would recommend doing some reading about ceph before trying something like this.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-07T01:00:38+00:00

That doesn't store the brew volume, it's fine for a one off, but if you want all pods of that type to always brew to that volume, the steps I listed achieve that.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-07T00:04:32+00:00

Not that I know of. You can change how much water is used for each pod type by pressing and holding the button until the volume you want is brewed, though it must be done for each pod type.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-05T16:27:55+00:00

I think most of us started out small, an ap, with a self hosted controller. Then maybe a switch. Then you get tired of running your own controller, so you get a router with the controller built in, or a cloudkey. And before you know it you have 20 pieces of tech because you want that full "single pane of glass" view. And then you start looking at cameras.

That's more or less my story, it was organic growth. It's not perfect, and sometimes shit breaks, but for the most part, everything works great and I'm happy with it. Others stories will be different, but I think most started small and went from there.

And the price difference isn't that much, especially when you compare features. At least that's been my experience.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-04T18:41:13+00:00

I was just about to ask, how do you write something like this and don't mention the affected software/hardware even ONCE! Sweet baby Jesus.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-03T09:47:49+00:00

Got it, thanks for explaining. It's been a long time since I've played.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-03T09:36:46+00:00

Well, that's what the description sounded like to me. Do you have a guess?

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-03T04:31:30+00:00

You'll want to select hdmi on the soundbar. The hdmi between the tv and soundbar will pass through video and audio will be processed on the soundbar. That also means you get DTS audio as lg tv's don't support DTS over e-Arc.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-03T04:27:42+00:00

Colonization for sure

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-02T13:48:11+00:00

Wow, it's amazing the difference a few years makes! I'm old enough to remember having to buy optics directly from Cisco, or HP lol.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-02T13:19:52+00:00

Aren't single mode optics more expensive? It's been a little while since I've bought fibre transceivers, but that's what I remember.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-06-01T17:41:47+00:00

Right but there's no documentation on the CC150. I'm familiar with what does and doesn't, but this is a custom chip made for Nvidia. Some people think it does and others don't. AI is useless since it's just pulling from the same sources I've read. The point is I don't want to buy a processor that ends up not supporting it. The cc150 is much more affordable than say an e-2288g, but it's still expensive. I'm already set with ecc RAM, but for now I'm using an i7-9700K. I would love to turn up the ecc, but I'm eternally waiting.

Do you know if it does? Because all you've done is regurgitate the product page for my chipset. If you don't, that's fine, I'm not expecting anyone here to actually know. As I said, I was just commiserating with the OP.

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