2011/4/20 David Bein <d.b...@f5.com>: > Hello Idwer, Hello David,
> > Thank you very much for the assistance. I assume > that something like: nvramtool -c 0 will force the > newly booted bios to re-compute the checksum on the cmos? I assume you want to save the current contents with "nvramtool -b cmos_contents.bin" and restore those settings with "nvramtool -B cmos_settings.bin". The manpage can be read (unformatted) in trac: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/util/nvramtool/cli/nvramtool.8 > > --David >> >> 2011/4/20 David Bein <d.b...@f5.com>: >> >>> >>> Hello ... >>> >>> I am very impressed with flashrom. I just used it on a motherboard based >>> on >>> the Lynnfield 3420 chipset and it worked very well and is much faster >>> than >>> the >>> AMI supplied equivalent. >>> >>> I have one problem which is that the very first boot after flashing the >>> bios rom >>> image, the bios complains about a CMOS checksum error and patiently >>> waits for some input. I am assuming others have been here before. What I >>> did >>> next >>> was enter the bios menu and tell it to save changes (none made). All >>> boots >>> after >>> this no longer complain about the CMOS checksum. >>> >>> The reason flashrom is interesting to us (aside from not being >>> restricted >>> by AMI) >>> is for unattended use in customer upgrade situations. Having any upgrade >>> path >>> require a human to type something is a bit of a problem. >>> >>> Any helpful hints will be greatly appreciated. >>> >> >> nvramtool is what you are looking for: http://www.coreboot.org/Nvramtool >> >> >>> >>> Last but not least, thank you to all of you whole have put a lot of >>> effort >>> into >>> this tool for use by coreboot and others. This really validates why open >>> source >>> is needed in the first place. >>> >>> --David >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> flashrom mailing list >>> flash...@flashrom.org >>> http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom >>> >>> > > -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot