Rampage IV extreme booting freeze with LSI raid controller.

[Nodens]

Fastboot works with LSI controllers just fine, I use one myself. What you are probably referring to, is the boot delay of the controller. There's nothing you can do about that as the controller itself does a multitude of checking during init etc that take time. Fastboot is about not checking certain components during POST and that works just fine.

[micax]

Fastboot works with LSI controllers just fine, I use one myself. What you are probably referring to, is the boot delay of the controller. There's nothing you can do about that as the controller itself does a multitude of checking during init etc that take time. Fastboot is about not checking certain components during POST and that works just fine.

Okey... but no. LSI`s POST takes a while... however when it stucks forever with fastboot enebled - it`s not that case. It freezes just before showing firmware version. I did not tested it through, i was satisfied with just disabling fastboot - and it`s not freezing forever anymore... - read my first post - The only reason why I was able to boot after power cycling - was that fastboot disabled after actions I took... "normal boot after AC failure" option was checked.

[Nodens]

Sorry I missed that. This is weird Fastboot works properly on all my LSI cards. Did you try switching to the cards EFI driver instead of OROM?

Also what UEFI version is your board running? The issue you are describing happened with 2xxx versions.

[Raja@ASUS]

Apprently the cards with issues are the IBM rebranded ones - and it's on quite a few motherboards (including other vendors).

The workaround is to set the following as you guys worked out:

User can set “boot---CSM---Boot from storage Devices” as “Uefi driver first” to skip this issue.

Can any of you guys with issues please post pictures of your card so we can determine if they are all rebranded or not?

We have contacted LSI, who have told us that LSI fw and drives should not be used on the IBM cards for some reason. We are awaiting a response from LSI to confirm if there are any differences between the rebranded cards and their "own".


Thanks
Raja

[Raja@ASUS]

Bumping this - we need pics of your cards if possible guys!

[micax]

Here are pictures.
Sorry for delay.

Thank you!

[micax]

Sorry I missed that. This is weird Fastboot works properly on all my LSI cards. Did you try switching to the cards EFI driver instead of OROM?

Also what UEFI version is your board running? The issue you are describing happened with 2xxx versions.

Also what UEFI version is your board running? - 4701

Did you try switching to the cards EFI driver instead of OROM? - what exactly you mean?

Thank you!

[Nodens]

Chage CSM options to UEFI first so the UEFI driver is loaded and not the OROM of the LSI controller.

[micax]

Chage CSM options to UEFI first so the UEFI driver is loaded and not the OROM of the LSI controller.

finally rebooted my machine and -
confirming, fast boot is working with UEFI first. Even LSI UEFI menu entries not working at all - error message: "invalid argument", booting works flawlessly, but I lost opportunity for LSI control except from OS.

[Nodens]

You can always toggle the CSM option back if you need to access the OROM tool and flip it back again when you are done.
There is an issue with the UEFI driver on the latest UEFI versions, I'm experiencing the same "inalid argument" myself. Hopefully it will get fixed at some point.