On 23/05/2010 14:51, Michael Karcher wrote: > [this message is primarily addressed to list readers, not to Dominic > personally] > > Am Sonntag, den 23.05.2010, 14:47 +0200 schrieb Michael Karcher: >> Am Sonntag, den 23.05.2010, 11:31 +0200 schrieb Dominic Fandrey: >>> I suspect I just bricked my notebook. I tried to flash it with a >>> BIOS image I exchanged some device IDs in. It failed with the subject >>> error and I tried to flash again with the backup, which failed in >>> the same manner (needless to say I dare not reboot at the moment). > We already discussed this issue in the IRC channel. The system is > write-protected and/or the Intel SPI driver failed, so nothing at all > happened. As flashrom checks for successfull erase before trying to > write the backup, even writing the backup failed, as erasing was not > successfull in the first place.
Thanks again for the quick response on IRC. In a fit of panic I wrote the mail before checking there. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
