Watchguard Firebox M400/M500
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@korenchkin ...alright thanks... I was thinking perhaps this plugin will do the job of updating the Me 9.1 code but no such luck.
I downloaded the files in your link. ... pardon my ignorance but, do i need to create a freedos boot usb flash drive and add the files to it and then boot the m400 then run the update as you stated it?
afuefix64.efi m400-91.rom /me
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Are you seeing it fail to reboot? Otherwise you don't need that.
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@stephenw10 I think was yesterday that you asked me if it reboots ok.
so earlier today i reboot it through serial console and it hangs...
I used to just turn it off after i did some changes. i am waiting for a sata drive to arrive so it is not online just yet. I would like to solve all the issues before goes online.
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@jriofrio this is efi shell,it just needs filesystem...it should pick up the right file...i think...for efi there is no mbr/boot sector...bios should know the name of the file to load(and be set to boot uefi,hopefully default)...i'm not certain about mbr/gpt partition table,windows uefi needs gpt,but here i probably didn't overthink it and it just booted...just try and see (and google for uefi flash boot/uefi shell,if something does not work right)
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@korenchkin .... Alright, thank you very much for the clarification, it really did help.
I did the flashing and tested it. I restart it by the serial console and the web interface, both worked as was hoping for.
A little reading with your comment about efi it help a lot.anyway, a quick question if i may. Before the flashing ME91, i was checking the bios and i saw that the image re-flash for the ME was disable, so i enable it, just in case.
Q: should i disable it back?
thanks one more time...
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Normally you set that and it applies to the following boot only and will automatically go back to disabled.
Out of interest I found I didn't need to set that to update the ME. Moving the jumper was sufficient.
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@jriofrio nice,glad it worked,for both of you i guess :)
I think now you know same as me,so treat your bios as yours,you have it updated,you will not update it again i guess,so maybe it will help against malware to have it disabled... -
I should add that, as predicted, after updating the ME my i3-4160 successfully reboots. For the first time in like 7 years. Amazing!
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@stephenw10 ....
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I was not experiencing reboot issues, but my OCD kicked in so I followed the process ...
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/124734/watchguard-firebox-m400-m500/588
... and applied the ME update via AFUDOS.EXE /ME and all went well. Maybe there are other benefits of ME 9.1.40.1000
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@Mookatroid ah,a fellow flashaholic :)
