2012/6/6 Ross McDonald <[email protected]>: > Hello! I would like to use CoreBoot on my laptop. It is an HP Compaq NC6320. > The board vendor is HP. It is a > HP 30AA motherboard with an Intel 945GM Chipset (ICH7-M southbridge and i945 > northbridge). The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600. It has a SMSC LPC47N217 > SuperIO chip (that is the output of SuperIOTool). > > # flashrom -V > flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1515 on Linux 3.4.0-1-ARCH (x86_64), built with libpci > 3.1.9, GCC 4.6.3, little endian > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org > > Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1803M loops per > second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 99 us, 1000 myus = 1002 us, 10000 myus = > 9991 us, 4 myus = 5 us, OK. > Initializing internal programmer > No coreboot table found. > DMI string system-manufacturer: "Hewlett-Packard" > DMI string system-product-name: "HP Compaq nc6320 (RN442AWR#ABA)" > DMI string system-version: "F.0E" > DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "Hewlett-Packard" > DMI string baseboard-product-name: "30AA" > DMI string baseboard-version: "KBC Version 58.13" > DMI string chassis-type: "Notebook" > Laptop detected via DMI. > ======================================================================== > WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. > Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we > recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller > (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. > See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details. > > If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop > and write may brick your laptop. > Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight > failure and sudden poweroff. > You have been warned. > ======================================================================== > Aborting. > > I can open up the case to find out what BIOS chip I have.
Or you can run flashrom like this (as root): flashrom -V -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick Passing additional parameters, such as reading or writing/erasing, is not necessary (is potentionally invasive/destructive). Idwer -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
