Friday, January 24, 2014
Sunfire X2100 1u server bios...
Since Oracle took over Sun Microsystems (RIP) they have locked down support for the older hardware. I was just looking for updated bios firmware for my X2100 server, but sadly I could not get anything. Since the server was having dreaded usb issues (look up issues with bios 1.0 on x2100...) the system was of no use to me unless I could fix the firmware. I found this: http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=85 -it looks like it's the same mainboard so I decided to force flash the bios with one for this tyan board. I used http://www.rom.by/UniflashRE/uniflash2.0b05.zip to force the new bios onto the board. I was surprised by how well it worked actually. There are a couple of issues: sound shows up under bios along with a couple other things that should not be there and the #1 lan port is dead. But other than that it seems to work just fine. The system boots faster now as well. I experimented with CentOS 6.5 x64, and the latest version of openmediavault (as of 24JAN14). So if anyone reading this has an old useless X2100 laying around, there might be hope for it. Good luck!
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