On 27.06.2015 15:20, Richard Simpson wrote: > Hello, > > I have had partial success with flashing my T60. After the first flash > the laptop re-booted OK, but the screen is completely black. Fiddling > with the backlight buttons doesn't have any effect. Fortunately, I can > connect via ssh so I am not locked out. > > I believe that my mistake was to put my ATI VGA bios into coreboot > rather than SeaBIOS. I have now corrected this but I can't flash the > updated version. For the first flash I used the following command: > > ./flashrom/i686/flashrom_lenovobios_sst -p internal -w coreboot.rom > > I got loads of errors as mentioned in the instructions, but it seemed to > work. Since I now want to do another flash I have followed the > instructions and used this simpler command: > > ./flashrom/i686/flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom > > I get the following error: > > flashrom v0.9.8-unknown on Linux 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64) > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org > > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > coreboot table found at 0xbfea0000. > ======================================================================== > 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 the manpage and 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. > Error: Programmer initialization failed. > > I have tried flashrom, flashrom_lenovobios_sst and > flashrom_lenovobios_macronix and get the same error every time. I have > also tried re-flashing the current working but blank screen bios and > that won't go in either. > > Suggestions gratefully received.
flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w coreboot.rom That should work. Then take care of bucts again. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
