Seattle: Firmware Update

Get the firmware package

At the time of writing this, firmware for the Seattle/Overdrive platform was available via the AMD NDA site: https://nda.amd.com
Once logged in, navigate to: All Folders > Server > Family 20h - Seattle > FDK-Software > Platform Firmware to pull down the firmware file(s).

Copy the files to an SD card and install the SD card in the socket on the rear of the server

Boot the system to an EFI prompt

• Connect a serial cable to the serial output of the system
• Power on (or reboot) the system
• When prompted, interrupt the boot sequence and drop to an EFI shell (press <ESC> when prompted):

UEFI Interactive Shell v2.0. UEFI v2.31 (American Megatrends, 0x00050002). Revision 1.02
Mapping table
      FS1: Alias(s):HD8b:;BLK6:
          VenHw(5F7068CC-F0E7-4724-8A9E-B3F0DA10C7D7)/HD(1,MBR,0x00000000,0xE1,0xF4B1F)
      FS0: Alias(s):HD6a65535a1:;BLK1:
          PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,44BEBA07-1851-458B-BB8C-BEB8F1C1B29C,0x800,0x32000)
     BLK5: Alias(s):
          VenHw(5F7068CC-F0E7-4724-8A9E-B3F0DA10C7D7)
     BLK0: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)
     BLK2: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,6FD071A3-BC07-4A9E-AA1B-C3648A31ED00,0x32800,0xC8000)
     BLK3: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(3,GPT,8EDFB203-300D-43DE-9B4C-073FC36641F7,0xFA800,0x3E8000)
     BLK4: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(4,GPT,02319B08-1AA2-47C4-9D58-5B5B30AED4ED,0x4E2800,0x125C000)
Press ESC in 2 seconds to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue.
Shell>