Carl-Daniel, Thanks. Despite the scary nature of the command and my lack of actual desire for a brick, that seems to have worked to get the new bios in. Sadly the screen is still black. I have created a separate thread to ask about that rather different problem.
Richard Simpson On 27/06/15 19:26, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > 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
