On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 08:55, Michael Karcher <[email protected]> wrote: > The important part of flashrom output is > >> BIOS Lock Enable: enabled, BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x2 >> tried to set 0xdc to 0x3 on ICH6/ICH6R failed (WARNING ONLY) >> FAILED! > > This means that the BIOS configured the chipset in a way that makes > probing/erasing/writing of the flash chip impossible for code running > normally on the system. The only way to reconfigure that would be from > the system management mode of the processor, a special mode that > executes BIOS code in a environment that is protected from the OS. The > only way of updating your BIOS in the current configuration would be > cooperating with the system management code through some vendor-specific > interface and have the system management code access the flash. > > This kind of BIOS update is not what the flashrom project currently > supports, so on your system it seems you need the vendor tools, which > seems quite common on HP/Compaq systems. It might also be that there is > a "enable BIOS updates" option in your BIOS setup which is disabled. In > this case, please retry with that option enabled.
OK. Thanks for the info! I did not find a "enable BIOS updates" option in the setup. :-( -mattias _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
