I just wanted to upgrade the firmware of my LSI 9300-8i, using

https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/Installer_P16_for_MSDOS_and_Windows.zip_p

 

I copied the following files from the above ZIP to a FreeDOS bootable USB stick and booted from that:

 

Installer(SAS3FLSH) DOS                  : \sas3flash_dos_rel\sas3flash.exe                             17.00.00.00          02-Apr-18     

Firmware                                 : \firmware\SAS9300_8i_IT\SAS9300_8i_IT.bin                    16.00.10.00          01-Aug-19           

BIOS                                     : \sasbios_rel\mptsas3.rom                                     8.37.00.00           05-Apr-18           

 

Running "sas3flsh" gives "Failed to initialize PAL." and the tool exits.

 

I found this: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2246526-flashing-ir-mode-to-lsi-9300-8i

It did not work, the stick was not recognized as UEFI bootable even after putting the flash-tool in the root folder and also in /efi/boot/bootx64.efi

Bummer.

 

 

Edited April 25, 20206 yr by b0m541

Failed to initialize PAL happens on more recent boards with UEFI support when booting DOS, you'd need to boot UEFI and uses sas2flash.efi, what I usually do is use an older board (without UEFI) to do the flashing or any available Windows desktop.