Error failed to initialise pal. exiting program

Thank you so much for all the info. I am completely new to all of this. Has anybody a shortcut or an hint to solve or reflash this card? I have just 1 small question before i will flash my 2 cards to IT mode. This combination is working perfectly but i was wondering; What will happen if i flash into IT mode? I just bought the M and it flashes to i IT firmware just fine using the M commands in this post.

FreeBSD 9. I used the FreeDOS 1. Something I did not find obvious, is that sas2flsh. Only then will sas2flsh see the card. Made me a bit nervous at first… Thanks, Pieter! Thanks, handy post and handy comments. I was able to crossflash my m with what I found here. Any idea how to solve issue? I got today my M I tried to flash the IR Firmware. Everything worked fine during the Flash. I was flashing like this:. After this i get a flashing cursor in the left corner.

I cannot boot anymore from the usb stick. Also its not possible to enter the Bios. It was easy to solve, I dont remember how. I am having issues as it seems like I did everything correctly the flash says its LSI now, but the 4 4tb drives are not showing up. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I got one of these drives, and was having an awful time getting it flashed for IT for freenas.

I did not even work on my nas server, I had to take the card and flash it on an old PC at work. Maybe it was because I ran amd 3. When I click on the link you posted it just leads me to a search page? Is there anywhere else I can get the sas2flash,efi file?

Do you remember how you solved the high bios address? I googled it and could not find any info on the problem. Following is the method I used,.

Not sure if I missed something important or if this perhaps is a new revision of card causing problems. Could really use any help as I am stumped here. P20 causes excessively slow reads in any sort of multiple disk access situation like raid or zfs. In my case a 4-way sata3 raid0 was giving 1.

All the command are the same. Got through the first two steps of flashing the LSI just fine. After the reboot, I get the error.

No dice as it says no operating system available. Suggestions on what to do here? I just want to use this card as HBA for a bunch of individual drives. I did this reflash a while ago to get this into IT mode. I want to see, it is an LSI!

So, instead of loading sbrm IBM original firmware image rom file is 4. LSI i firmware is also 4. So, logically, do not install or firmware, go through i or original IBM firmware, it seems there is no need to modify IBM card at all!

Therefore, some people may prefer using their original software instead i, because of nothing more that it seems. It worked great, 6 disks appreared as JBODs, like intended. I moved the controller into an older Gigabyte Socket mobo and the flash process went well. When I attach the same disk to the ServeRaid, the option is displayed to be available, but if I press the button nothing happens.

If attach the disk to the ServeRaid controller, this will not happen too. Did anyone get disk spjndown with this controller working? I wonder whether I get this if I re-flash the controller to include a BIOS, but since I have to move it to a different board again Id like to know whether there is a chance at all to get spindown, before I take my server apart once more.

Here are a few of the problems I encountered and their solutions. I put the image across to a USB stick, mounted it and copied across the files in the zip file above. Exiting program. I ended up starting from scratch with a freshly formatted USB stick. Typing fs0: at the prompt left me in a unix like shell with cwd in the root of the USB file system. The there, I could invoke sas2flash. The screen just flickers blank. Q5 sas2flash. Dynszis R. Dynszis 11 1 1 bronze badge.

Joe Joe 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. The name of this package is:. Now that we have the actual firmware, we need a way to install it. I initially downloaded the Installer P12 for Linux package. The included sas2flash utility was easily able to upgrade the firmware on the SASi to the latest IR version but threw an error when I tried to flash with IT firmware.

Some searching ensued which led me to several LSI knowledge base articles. In summary, the article suggests that I need to create a DOS bootable USB flash drive or similar, copy the appropriate firmware and sas2flsh DOS utility to the drive and update that way.

This command puts the sas2flsh command into advanced mode -o and then erases the flash -e 6 firmware and BIOS.

Apparently rebooting at this point would cause the HBA to cease functioning as the article warns:. The relevant files are it. The next command actually does the flashing. This process seemed simple enough. I reasoned that perhaps the article uses a DOS bootable USB drive since that is the way most people will do the flashing but the Linux sas2flash program should work fine as well. This was not the case. It may not display this or other websites correctly.

You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Status Not open for further replies. Joined Jan 1, Messages I've just upgrade to FreeNAS 9. I've read that is highly recommended to have the firmware version to match the driver version. Joined Nov 6, Messages 6, Once you boot from this you can follow the directions to flash as normal.

My motherboard didn't have a built in efi shell and i spent way to much time learning about everything before i found this solution. SweetAndLow said:. Click to expand If you saw the pal error then your bios is efi. You don't run it in dos you don't need any kind of os to do this.

Your motherboard should give you the option to boot into the sas2flash. Or boot from the USB or something like that. Darren Myers Neophyte Sage.

Joined Oct 2, Messages Darren Myers said:. Ok there are two ways to get this done. The efi way and the non efi way. I looked though my notes and will try to walk you through how to do it the efi way when your motherboard doesn't have a built in efi shell.

You should ignore all you have read about making a dos bootable usb, that method only works for the non uefi motherboards and is how most of the guides are written. What you need to do is: 1.

Download the sas2flash.