Hi,

I have an Intel SRCU42X raid controller that currently has firmware version 414D. The bios flash was done by a "system update package", from Intel which is an iso file that you can burn to a cd. The upgrade to 414D went fine.

But the newest firmware version is 414I and is not available as a bootable iso, only as a 414I.rom file (windows only etc.). So I thought: lets alter the 414D iso to the newest 414I iso, and make a new bootable iso. But this was harder than I thought.

I extracted the original iso file with file-roller and replaced the 414D.rom file with 414I.rom, and modified the .bat-files references from 414D to 414I. The files and directories in the original iso are:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 marco  wheel  7828 Feb  9  2006 LICENSE.TXT
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SRCS16
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SRCS28X
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SRCU41L
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SRCU42E
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SRCU42L
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:24 SRCU42X
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SRCZCRX
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 SROMB42E
-rwxr-xr-x  1 marco  wheel  1207 Aug 23  2004 SUP.BAT
-rwxr-xr-x  1 marco  wheel  3732 Feb 11  2006 SUP.TXT
-rwxr-xr-x  1 marco  wheel  4350 Mar 10  2006 SUP_Release_note.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 marco  wheel  5479 Feb 10  2006 UPDATE.BAT
-rwxr-xr-x  1 marco  wheel   244 Jan  6 11:25 VER_LOAD.BAT
drwxr-xr-x  2 marco  wheel   512 Jan  6 11:19 [BOOT]

The SRCU42X directory contains the 414I.rom file, an irflash.exe update utility and a run.bat batch file (running irflash.exe with reference to the .rom file). The [BOOT] directory contains one file: Bootable_HardDisk.img.

After that I tried to create the iso with:
root@yokozuna:/data2/tmp# mkisofs -r -J -b [BOOT]/Bootable_HardDisk.img -hard-disk-boot -o raid.iso /data2/tmp
which gives an error: mkisofs: No match

First I thought the directory name [BOOT] was weird so I changed this to BOOT. Running mkisofs -r -J -b BOOT/Bootable_HardDisk.img -hard-disk-boot -o raid.iso /data2/tmp creates an iso, but when I burn this to a cd it doesn't boot.

Strange thing also is the fact that the original iso has the size of ~17MB, but the created iso by me is ~10MB. So it seems I'm missing some files.

So what am I doing wrong and what is the correct commandline to create a bootable iso for flashing a raid controller bios?

Thanks,

Marco
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