Hi, I have a serious problem with my Bluefield-2 DPU. I managed to obtain two of these cards, and one of them is working perfectly, but after swapping it with the other, my system complains and I cannot access it at all. First of all, it timeouts during bootup with the following errors: mlx5_funct…

Yes, secure boot is disabled, and all security-kinda features are disabled too. I did an apt upgrade on the working smartNIC, which did not come back after reboot. Cannot reflash the image on that either. Do I have now 2 expensive paperweights?

or do you mean secure boot on the NIC itself? I have a BF2M516A-CECOT, which has crypto and secure boot enabled. But I thought secure boot would just prevent me from installing third-party images on the NIC. But any image signed by NVIDIA should work. And I am about to flash the standard image from…

What DOCA BSP version do you have installed now?

I don’t really know as I could not access the SmartNIC since opening the box. But I was trying to flash all 3 versions available: 1.5, 2.0, 2.2. In fact, some magic has happened just now. I tried flashing v1.5, it still hang up at exit boot service and I left it there for 2 hours again. Nothing hap…

hi cs.lev please check with this link about the card install, some card need external power: Hardware Installation - NVIDIA Docs after this, please check with lspci in X86 side, see the PCIE link is working normally or not. If not, we need to solve the PCIE l…

my PCIe link is working, as a graphic card is also used and was swapped sveral times to test the NIC. I have realized something new, though. If I reinstall the 1.5 DOCA via bfb-install, then even though the process hangs at exit boot process, if I am attached to the console, I can see the message …

I used /dev/rshim0/console to access UEFI in the same case as you. During booting process I just pushed few times to a button quickly and somehow I got the log with UEFI.

I could see the GRUB coming up when pressed two times, but then I could not select anything, and it timed out quite quickly

Hi, The solution is to go to the UEFI BIOS configuration (default password is bluefield) and disable secure boot mode and set the BlueField mode to a valid configuration. See Step 04.04: Ensure that the BlueField Mode is correctly set in the UEFI configuration in the following post How to update …

Bluefield-2 firmware is dead, cannot access, hang up at boot, cannot reflash

Infrastructure & Networking BlueField

yavtuk October 26, 2023, 10:29am 2

Hello,
Is secure boot disabled in BIOS?

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Bluefield-2 firmware is dead, cannot access, hang up at boot, cannot reflash

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