Hi,
at this point in the boot process I cannot make a screenshot yet, so attached is a photo.
Normally, the sequence is like Mellanox Flexboot inits, Integrated Ethernet boot ROM1 inits, Integrated Ethernet boot ROM2 inits, then comes the AMI BIOS screen, and then it starts booting the first boot device.
Please note that the Mellanox card is not used for PXE, as in this specific case we have been booting from a local SSD drive. Therefore none of the PXE entries have been activated.
Nevertheless, this message appears first during the whole boot process.
When it hangs, it does so at this point:
Please note that I have tried to disable this (as we do not need it) from:
-the FlexBoot configuration (set Option ROM -> Disabled)
-using "flint -dev <mst device name> drom" -> this did not succeed.
Then, on the official support site, I have been advised to use
flint -d <mst device> --allow_rom_change drom
instead, which apparently removed the ROM and the message altogether. This avoids the problem in my case, but I guess it should not stop there anyway.
Best regards,
Peter