Intel® ethernet flash firmware utility, Overview – Dell Intel PRO Family of Adapters User Manual
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Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility
Overview
The Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility (BootUtil) is a utility that can be used to program the PCI option ROM on the flash
memory of supported Intel PCI Express based network adapters and to update configurations. BootUtil replaces existing
utilities and provides the functionality of the older IBAUTIL, ISCSIUTL, LANUTIL, and FLAUTIL. It supports all adapters
supported by the previous utilities.
NOTES:
Updating the adapter's flash memory using BootUtil will erase any existing firmware image from the flash
memory.
If you are updating firmware from version 13.x, you must first update to version 14.0.12 before updating to
firmware version 14.5.x.
After updating the firmware using the Lifecycle Controller or running the Firmware Driver Update Package, the
system must be completely powered down (A/C power removed) and restarted for all changes to take effect.
Intel provides the following flash firmware in FLB file format for programming to the flash memory:
Intel® Boot Agent as PXE Option ROM for legacy BIOS
(http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/bootagent/)
Intel® Ethernet iSCSI Boot as iSCSI Option ROM for legacy BIOS
(http://www.intel.com/support/network/iscsi/remoteboot/)
Network Connectivity, UEFI network driver (http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-006120.htm)
OEMs may provide custom flash firmware images for OEM network adapters. Please refer to the instructions given by OEMs.
BootUtil allows the user to flash supported firmware to the adapter from the included master FLB file. This option ROM includes
PXE, iSCSI, FCoE and UEFI drivers, and the image is programmed to the flash memory at once. BootUtil will also build the
required combo images for supported adapters and program those images to the flash, as well. Since both discrete and combo
images are supported, the -BOOTENABLE command ONLY works on combo images.
The Master FLB file (BOOTIMG.FLB) is the new container for all the Intel(R) boot Option ROMs. This file replaces the existing
FLB files for PXE, iSCSI, FCoE and EFI.
NOTE: BootUtil supports older flb files to maintain backwards compatibility with the previous utilities.
BootUtil without command line options will display a list of all supported Intel network ports in the system. BootUtil will also
allow the user to enable or disable the flash memory on specific ports by using -FLASHENABLE or -FLASHDISABLE option in
order to control access to the firmware from the system.
BootUtil allows the user to individually set iSCSI Boot configurations using -NIC=xx -[OPTION]=[VALUE] options. The -I option
is iSCSI specific and will not work for PXE configurations.
NOTES:
BootUtil can display up to 128 adapter ports.
No configuration settings are supported for the UEFI driver.
Functionality from the previous utilities, such as IBAUTIL, is preserved in BootUtil, but the syntax for some
commands may have changed.
BootUtil is located on the software installation CD in the \BOOTUTIL directory. Always check the Dell Customer Support website
(http://www.support.dell.com) for the latest information and component updates.