Hi Elia, On 30.10.2008 11:45, Elia Yehuda wrote: > I'm trying to play with coreboot to flash my bios on my PC, with no success. > here are the computer hardware information followed by the commands I'm > trying to execute. > > cpu: Socket370 Intel Pentium III Celeron > northbridge: Intel 82810E > southbridge: Intel 8281AA > mainboard: 810 R 4.1 with lan > super i/o: Winbond W8362F-AW > bios device: ST M50FW002 > > lspci output: > [...] > > $ flashrom -f -r -c M50FW016 mydump > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > No coreboot table found. > Found chipset "Intel ICH", enabling flash write... OK. > No EEPROM/flash device found. > Force read (-f -r -c) requested, forcing chip probe success: > Found chip "ST M50FW016" (2048 KB) at physical address 0xffe00000. > Force reading flash...done >
It is a bad sign if you had to force the chip type for the read operation. > $ flashrom -f -w -c M50FW016 mydump > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > No coreboot table found. > Found chipset "Intel ICH", enabling flash write... OK. > No EEPROM/flash device found. > Force write can't work because the strategy for access is unknown. > I'd appreciate any assistance as all this flashing stuff is new to me. > Basically what i'm trying to accomplish is having my linux system running as > the payload, but i'm stuck with even re-writing the same bios-dump i've just > read from the bios... I'll post any further information required to diagnose > this further. > Can you run flashrom -V and report the results to this list? We may need to change the chipset/board enable sequence for your board. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
