On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:57:26 -0600 Donovan Lavinder <[email protected]> wrote:
> After a day of struggling with bricked firmwares.... I finally ditched > FreeDOS. I went with SystemRescueCd distro and burnt coreboot precompiled > firmware under the folder /gigabyte_ma78gm/ and the firmware WORKED! But now > I am stuck with funny firmware quirks (Windows XP crashing when booting > halfway, almost to the point the video card driver is loaded, right after > "GIVEIO.SYS" driver is being loaded), even though it loaded Linux CD fine. I > guess I should try and ditch PS/2 mouse as it may probably be the cause of > strange behavior - I will be using USB mouse / keyboard as well. I am happy > with this firmware otherwise. And, the backup BIOS didn't even try to > intercept the Linux kernel in the firmware from loading. Thankfully. I will > eventually decide to recompile or "submit" the additional payloads such as > EFI and memtest86+ as those software will be needed in the future, after I > learn more of its capabilities. > > And, thanks for such a wonderful firmware! That thing's so fast! > congratulations :) this mail probably should have been sent to [email protected] though (too). btw could you provide a log of a successful flashrom write please? -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
