How To Update M4 Ssd Firmware For Mac
Crucial MX100 Firmware Update MU02 Instructions and attachment updated for Crucial MX100 Firmware Update MU02 There has been a new firmware release for the Crucial MX100 and the procedure for booting the firmware update tool is the same as with the M550. Downloads and items needed before you begin: 1. Crucial firmware MU02 download for the MX100 SSD. USB flash drive (or SD card) to be formatted as a FAT32 volume. GRUB-EFI bootloader files for 64bit EFI from the attachment.
Download the firmware, unzip and place the ISO on the desktop. For MX100 MU02: MX100MU02BOOTABLEALLCAP.iso Download the GRUB-EFI bootloader files from the attachment: grubefiusb-0.03.zip The individual file checksums can be verified. Code: $ shasum EFI/boot/bootx64.efi 093b2e05d8ad4c2bb8ca01d01c15fdaa6ff50174 EFI/boot/bootx64.efi $ shasum EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 74bf975b64be55f4e1b2abacf8d388 EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 $ shasum EFI/boot/grub.cfg fcbe41548463ce929f140367edbd23af423553de EFI/boot/grub.cfgFollow the general instructions as per the original post for the M550. The following files should be installed on the USB:. EFI/boot/unicode.pf2.
EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg. boot/vmlinuz. boot/core.gz In this case the files installed under EFI/boot come from grubefiusb-0.03.zip The files installed under boot come from the Crucial/Micron MX100 firmware download. Boot from the USB and when the GRUB bootloader runs, the GRUB menu can be seen and the user can then select the preferred boot option using the up/down arrow keys. Micro Core Linux with waitusb=10 and superuser. Micron Storage Director MX100 FW update The MX100 FW update option will update the firmware with no need for user input.
This EFI bootable USB update has been tested with a Gigabyte Z77-D3H UEFI motherboard, which successfully updated an MX100 512GB SSD from MU01 to MU02. This was also tested with a late 2011 13-inch MBP, just to confirm that it booted and displayed the grub menu, but since the SSD was not an MX100, the firmware update could not be verified. Please let me know if this works or if you have any problems. Can anyone assist me in verifying if which GRUB-EFI bootloader files I should obtain if I would like to update to latest firmware for Crucial 'M500' SSD ( not M550)? Grubefiusb-0.02.zip, grubefiusb-0.03.zip, or grubefiusb-0.03-p02.zip? Or maybe a different EFI bootloader file?
I am a newbie that used the directions provided by 'alex0002' to successfully create a bootable USB thumb drive to update the M550's firmware on my 2011 iMac, but I didn't know if the same or similar instructions apply to help me update a different Mac that has the M500. I know where to get the firmware download for the M500 , but didn't know which EFI bootloader to use with it to create the bootable USB. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Can anyone assist me in verifying if which GRUB-EFI bootloader files I should obtain if I would like to update to latest firmware for Crucial 'M500' SSD ( not M550)? Grubefiusb-0.02.zip, grubefiusb-0.03.zip, or grubefiusb-0.03-p02.zip? Or maybe a different EFI bootloader file?
I am a newbie that used the directions provided by 'alex0002' to successfully create a bootable USB thumb drive to update the M550's firmware on my 2011 iMac, but I didn't know if the same or similar instructions apply to help me update a different Mac that has the M500. I know where to get the firmware download for the M500 , but didn't know which EFI bootloader to use with it to create the bootable USB.
Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Can anyone assist me in verifying if which GRUB-EFI bootloader files I should obtain if I would like to update to latest firmware for Crucial 'M500' SSD ( not M550)? Grubefiusb-0.02.zip, grubefiusb-0.03.zip, or grubefiusb-0.03-p02.zip? Or maybe a different EFI bootloader file? I am a newbie that used the directions provided by 'alex0002' to successfully create a bootable USB thumb drive to update the M550's firmware on my 2011 iMac, but I didn't know if the same or similar instructions apply to help me update a different Mac that has the M500. I know where to get the firmware download for the M500 , but didn't know which EFI bootloader to use with it to create the bootable USB. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
The firmware update for the Crucial/Micron M550 SSD now provides the firmware update tool for firmware MU02 implemented as a linux kernel and ramdisk contained in an ISO image.1 Since we can boot a linux kernel using EFI, it should be possible to boot a Mac from USB with an EFI bootloader and update the SSD firmware without an optical drive. This EFI Boot USB method can also be used in cases where update from the optical drive fails. Downloads and items needed before you begin: 1. Crucial / Micron Firmware download for M550 SSD.2 2. USB flash drive (or SD card) to be formatted as a FAT32 volume. GRUB-EFI bootloader files for 64bit EFI from the attachment. Download the firmware, unzip and place the ISO on the desktop.
For M550 MU02: M550SEDUPDATEMU02BOOTABLE.iso Download the GRUB-EFI bootloader files from the attachment: grubefiusb-0.02.zip The license is and is included in the zip file. The individual file checksums can be verified. Code: $ shasum EFI/boot/bootx64.efi 093b2e05d8ad4c2bb8ca01d01c15fdaa6ff50174 EFI/boot/bootx64.efi $ shasum EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 74bf975b64be55f4e1b2abacf8d388 EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 $ shasum EFI/boot/grub.cfg d850ddddfaf31a5f1784 EFI/boot/grub.cfg The original GRUB-EFI files can be downloaded from the Gparted project on sourceforge if preferred.3 The same EFI Boot method can also be used to boot MicroCore linux or some other small linux system.4 Please note: using GRUB to boot the Micron firmware updater is unsupported. Use this option at your own risk.
The installation procedure: 1. To format the USB flash drive, insert the USB in the Mac. Format the USB drive as FAT32 (MS-DOS in OS X Disk Utility). use Partition Map type: Master Boot Record. use a suitable volume name - in this case we use: EFIBOOT Once formatting is complete, the volume should be mounted as EFIBOOT. To install the EFI bootloader, open the folder containing GRUB-EFI files:.
EFI/boot/unicode.pf2. Awm 2725 driver for mac. EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg 3. Transfer those files to the EFIBOOT USB: The EFI folder and files should be copied to the root of the USB flash drive. Install the Crucial / Micron firmware update folders to the USB. Open the M550 firmware ISO where there will be two folders:.
boot. cde Now copy those folders and files to the root of the EFIBOOT USB. The EFIBOOT volume should now contain the following folders:.
EFI. boot. cde The files provided in the cde folder of the Crucial/Micro download, do not appear to be used in the M550 MU02 update, but there is no harm in having them on the USB. In practice, the following files are needed on the USB:. EFI/boot/unicode.pf2. EFI/boot/bootx64.efi.
EFI/boot/grub.cfg. boot/vmlinuz.
boot/core.gz 5. Set the boot flag for the FAT32 partition (optional step). This is an optional step and should not be needed in most cases where the USB uses an msdos partition table.
There might be some EFI/UEFI implementations where this is required. In Linux we can use the Gparted application to change the partition flags.
Shutdown/reboot the computer. When restarting a Mac, press and hold the Option key at boot time. In a few seconds, Startup Manager appears and you can select the EFI Boot USB device. When the GRUB bootloader runs, the GRUB menu can be seen and the user can then select the preferred boot option using the up/down arrow keys. Micro Core Linux with waitusb=10 and superuser. Micron Storage Director M550 FW update If no key is pressed, the default menu option is used. The M550 FW update option will update the firmware with no need for user input.
The Micro Core Linux option can be used for troubleshooting, but the macbook pro keyboard and some other Mac keyboards might not work. You will need to use a generic USB keyboard. More info on the M550 MU02 firmware update can be found in M550 MU02 thread on the crucial support forums.5 Notes: 1. Previous Crucial/Micron firmware updates for the M4 and M500 SSDs used a FreeDOS based update that could not be booted from a pure EFI/UEFI environment. Crucial SSD firmware downloads can be found here: 3. Gparted project: The downloaded version used for the GRUB-EFI files was: gparted-live-0.20.0-2-amd64.zip 4. TinyCore and MicroCore linux can be found here: 5.
Click to expand.I'm sometimes using Text Wrangler for text editing which is quite good, although there are other options. People with Linux/Unix command line experience might prefer to use the nano or vi editors from a terminal session. However, there are likely to be some difficulties with the M4 and M500 SSD firmware updates if you try to boot them using the EFI boot method mentioned in this thread. Unlike the Crucial M550 and later, the M4 and M500 firmware updates did not use a linux based firmware updater. The updater for those earlier M4 and M500 SSDs used a different boot process that loads FreeDOS from a virtual floppy disk image. You could try the Refit based method mentioned in the (and ) above by Rei K.
How To Update M4 Ssd Firmware For Mac Pro
I just noticed I'm replying to an old post, so I hope you already found a solution. Someone asked me about the MX200 firmware update. Just follow the general instructions as per the previous messages for the M550 and MX100. The following files should be installed on the USB:. EFI/boot/unicode.pf2. EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg.
boot/vmlinuz. boot/core.gz The bootx64.efi and unicode.pf2 files under EFI/boot come from either the M550 or MX100 grubefiusb.zip files posted earlier in the first page of this thread. The updated grub.cfg for the MX200 can be edited using a text editor or use the attachment to this post. The files installed under boot come from the MX200 firmware download.
I was able to test that the update boots on my macbook pro, but I didn't have an MX200 so I just got the message: No drives needing update. Please find the updated grub.cfg for MX200 in the attachment: grub-mx200.zip. Crucial MX100 Firmware Update MU02 Instructions and attachment updated for Crucial MX100 Firmware Update MU02 There has been a new firmware release for the Crucial MX100 and the procedure for booting the firmware update tool is the same as with the M550. Downloads and items needed before you begin: 1. Crucial firmware MU02 download for the MX100 SSD. USB flash drive (or SD card) to be formatted as a FAT32 volume. GRUB-EFI bootloader files for 64bit EFI from the attachment.
Download the firmware, unzip and place the ISO on the desktop. For MX100 MU02: MX100MU02BOOTABLEALLCAP.iso Download the GRUB-EFI bootloader files from the attachment: grubefiusb-0.03.zip The individual file checksums can be verified.
Code: $ shasum EFI/boot/bootx64.efi 093b2e05d8ad4c2bb8ca01d01c15fdaa6ff50174 EFI/boot/bootx64.efi $ shasum EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 74bf975b64be55f4e1b2abacf8d388 EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 $ shasum EFI/boot/grub.cfg fcbe41548463ce929f140367edbd23af423553de EFI/boot/grub.cfgFollow the general instructions as per the original post for the M550. The following files should be installed on the USB:. EFI/boot/unicode.pf2.
EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg. boot/vmlinuz. boot/core.gz In this case the files installed under EFI/boot come from grubefiusb-0.03.zip The files installed under boot come from the Crucial/Micron MX100 firmware download. Boot from the USB and when the GRUB bootloader runs, the GRUB menu can be seen and the user can then select the preferred boot option using the up/down arrow keys. Micro Core Linux with waitusb=10 and superuser.
Micron Storage Director MX100 FW update The MX100 FW update option will update the firmware with no need for user input. This EFI bootable USB update has been tested with a Gigabyte Z77-D3H UEFI motherboard, which successfully updated an MX100 512GB SSD from MU01 to MU02. This was also tested with a late 2011 13-inch MBP, just to confirm that it booted and displayed the grub menu, but since the SSD was not an MX100, the firmware update could not be verified.
Please let me know if this works or if you have any problems. Someone asked me about the MX200 firmware update.
Just follow the general instructions as per the previous messages for the M550 and MX100. The following files should be installed on the USB:.
EFI/boot/unicode.pf2. EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg. boot/vmlinuz. boot/core.gz The bootx64.efi and unicode.pf2 files under EFI/boot come from either the M550 or MX100 grubefiusb.zip files posted earlier in the first page of this thread. The updated grub.cfg for the MX200 can be edited using a text editor or use the attachment to this post. The files installed under boot come from the MX200 firmware download.
I was able to test that the update boots on my macbook pro, but I didn't have an MX200 so I just got the message: No drives needing update. Please find the updated grub.cfg for MX200 in the attachment: grub-mx200.zip. Click to expand. Hi Alex following your fantastic guide, I successful update my new 525 GB Crucial MX300 to actual firmware M0CR040 The SSD has replaced the optical unit in my iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010). I only wasted time trying to use the optical drive (now external) as boot device. I burned 4 CDs following various guides with no lucky.
I edit EFI/boot/grub.cfg with firmware rssd-model= MX300 in the attachment: grub-mx300.zip The bluetooth keyboard of iMac works fine to select the preferred boot option using the up/down arrow keys! All the best Alessandro. The firmware update for the Crucial/Micron M550 SSD now provides the firmware update tool for firmware MU02 implemented as a linux kernel and ramdisk contained in an ISO image.1 Since we can boot a linux kernel using EFI, it should be possible to boot a Mac from USB with an EFI bootloader and update the SSD firmware without an optical drive. This EFI Boot USB method can also be used in cases where update from the optical drive fails. Downloads and items needed before you begin: 1. Crucial / Micron Firmware download for M550 SSD.2 2.
USB flash drive (or SD card) to be formatted as a FAT32 volume. GRUB-EFI bootloader files for 64bit EFI from the attachment.
Download the firmware, unzip and place the ISO on the desktop. For M550 MU02: M550SEDUPDATEMU02BOOTABLE.iso Download the GRUB-EFI bootloader files from the attachment: grubefiusb-0.02.zip The license is and is included in the zip file. The individual file checksums can be verified. Code: $ shasum EFI/boot/bootx64.efi 093b2e05d8ad4c2bb8ca01d01c15fdaa6ff50174 EFI/boot/bootx64.efi $ shasum EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 74bf975b64be55f4e1b2abacf8d388 EFI/boot/unicode.pf2 $ shasum EFI/boot/grub.cfg d850ddddfaf31a5f1784 EFI/boot/grub.cfg The original GRUB-EFI files can be downloaded from the Gparted project on sourceforge if preferred.3 The same EFI Boot method can also be used to boot MicroCore linux or some other small linux system.4 Please note: using GRUB to boot the Micron firmware updater is unsupported. Use this option at your own risk. The installation procedure: 1. To format the USB flash drive, insert the USB in the Mac.
Format the USB drive as FAT32 (MS-DOS in OS X Disk Utility). use Partition Map type: Master Boot Record. use a suitable volume name - in this case we use: EFIBOOT Once formatting is complete, the volume should be mounted as EFIBOOT. To install the EFI bootloader, open the folder containing GRUB-EFI files:.
EFI/boot/unicode.pf2. EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg 3. Transfer those files to the EFIBOOT USB: The EFI folder and files should be copied to the root of the USB flash drive.
Install the Crucial / Micron firmware update folders to the USB. Open the M550 firmware ISO where there will be two folders:. boot. cde Now copy those folders and files to the root of the EFIBOOT USB.
The EFIBOOT volume should now contain the following folders:. EFI. boot. cde The files provided in the cde folder of the Crucial/Micro download, do not appear to be used in the M550 MU02 update, but there is no harm in having them on the USB. In practice, the following files are needed on the USB:. EFI/boot/unicode.pf2.
EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. EFI/boot/grub.cfg. boot/vmlinuz.
boot/core.gz 5. Set the boot flag for the FAT32 partition (optional step). This is an optional step and should not be needed in most cases where the USB uses an msdos partition table. There might be some EFI/UEFI implementations where this is required. In Linux we can use the Gparted application to change the partition flags. Shutdown/reboot the computer. When restarting a Mac, press and hold the Option key at boot time.
In a few seconds, Startup Manager appears and you can select the EFI Boot USB device. When the GRUB bootloader runs, the GRUB menu can be seen and the user can then select the preferred boot option using the up/down arrow keys. Micro Core Linux with waitusb=10 and superuser.
Micron Storage Director M550 FW update If no key is pressed, the default menu option is used. The M550 FW update option will update the firmware with no need for user input. The Micro Core Linux option can be used for troubleshooting, but the macbook pro keyboard and some other Mac keyboards might not work.
You will need to use a generic USB keyboard. More info on the M550 MU02 firmware update can be found in M550 MU02 thread on the crucial support forums.5 Notes: 1. Previous Crucial/Micron firmware updates for the M4 and M500 SSDs used a FreeDOS based update that could not be booted from a pure EFI/UEFI environment. Crucial SSD firmware downloads can be found here: 3. Gparted project: The downloaded version used for the GRUB-EFI files was: gparted-live-0.20.0-2-amd64.zip 4. TinyCore and MicroCore linux can be found here: 5.
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After years of reading MacRumors, I just signed up for the first time ever, to post this. OMG why isn't this thread at the top of Crucial's firmware update instructions for Mac!! After a couple of days searching and trying various solutions to update SSD firmware via booting from a USB stick, with no success, I arrive here and within 30 minutes have updated two MX200s, in a 2011 iMac and a 2012 Mac Mini, from MU03 to MU04.
My meagre contribution - for 'safe' editing of text files I like pico. I'm no command line geek but find it friendly enough to use for simple changes such as those required here in grub.cfg. Thank you so much Alex and others who contributed.
I was having big problems with my MacBook Pro freezing up and getting the 'spinning ball of death'. I tried swapping put memory sticks, reformatted my SSD, erased settings. Reloaded software. Hardware scan.
Nothing worked. I happened across a forum that indicated OSX Lion users were having trouble with the Crucial M4 SSD drives with certain firmware versions. It recommended using firmware version 0309. So I tried it (thinking it couldn't be the solution) and its been working great since!!!!
If you'd like to try this as a solution, you just need to use Disk Utility and burn this image to a CD. I recommend having a current back up of your drive before upgrading firmware. Just to be safe. I hope this saves someone the headaches I experienced. I was also having the same problem and solved it as monky paw has suggested (i.e.
Buring a CD and booting from it). I had a couple of Crucial M4 SSD drives that older firmware (000F). In fact, I had the same problem on a couple of older MacMinis as well (also solved by the firmware update via the same boot CD). As 6+ mo have gone by since monky paw's post, I thought I would mention that as of the time of this post, the latest firmware is (040H). You can get it on crucial's site. It promises performance improvements and better survivability on sudden power outages (e.g.
Faster boot times after the power outage event). Here is a link to the firmware download: Additional comments about booting from a USB drive vs. The optical drive: I have a 5yr old MacBook Pro and I extended it's life w/ an M4 SSD drive. I liked is so much that I removed the optical drive and put in a second M4 SSD drive. So I tried to create a bootable USB drive (i.e. Bootable on OSX and running only the firmware update code) and couldn't get my PB to boot from it. I tried about 3 or 4 different methods from different posts on the net.
So I ended up (temporarily) reinstalling my optical drive and doing the update via the CD method. I swapped out my second (non OS) SSD drive and updated that one as well. Lastly, at first, I couldn't get my PB to boot off an external CD drive or the internal (re-installed) CD drive (using the old 'hold down the c key' method).
So I ended up holding down the Option key and reinserting the bootable CD. Then 'Windows' showed up as a boot disk (i.e. The CD showed up) and I booted from it. So I just wanted to illustrate exactly what it took to get it updated on an older machine w/ no internal optical drive. Kind of a pain, but the CD method worked for me too. I also hope this helps someone as well. I'm amazed that I didn't lose one of those little silver screws;-P.
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