In a follow-up to my last email, I ran the flash again and got this message.
flashrom v1.6.0 on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5 (amd64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
coreboot table found at 0x76a14000.
Found chipset "Intel Alder Lake-P".
Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting BIOS Control at 0xdc from 0x8b to 0x89
failed.
New value is 0x8b.
SPI Configuration is locked down.
FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-write.
FREG1: BIOS region (0x00580000-0x00ffffff) is read-write.
FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x003aefff) is read-write.
PR0: Warning: 0x00b00000-0x00ffffff is read-only.
At least some flash regions are write protected. For write operations,
you should use a flash layout and include only writable regions. See
manpage for more details.
OK.
Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L12805D" (16384 kB, Programmer-specific) on
internal.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: WP
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,
please email a report to [email protected] if any of the above operations
work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log
file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention
which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line.
You can also try to follow the instructions here:
https://www.flashrom.org/contrib_howtos/how_to_mark_chip_tested.html
Thanks for your help!
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Updating flash chip contents... Transaction error between offset 0x00b04000 and
0x00b04000 (= 0x00b04000 + 0)!
Erase/write done from 0 to ffffff
Write Failed!Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
Reading current flash chip contents... done.
Good, writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything.
This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or flash
chip. Please report this to the mailing list at [email protected] or on
chat channels (see https://flashrom.org/contact.html for details), thanks!
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You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running.
Should I reboot?
Dave
------- Forwarded Message -------
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: On Thursday, December 11th, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Subject: Failed coreboot flash
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> I was attempting to update my protectli VP6650 while running opnsense with
> the command flashrom -p internal -w protectli_vp6600_v0.9.2.rom. The current
> coreboot is 0.9.0 and I tried updating to 0.9.2 but it gave me an error and
> says do not reboot. See below:
>
> flashrom v1.6.0 on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5 (amd64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
>
> coreboot table found at 0x76a14000.
> Found chipset "Intel Alder Lake-P".
> Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting BIOS Control at 0xdc from 0x8b to
> 0x89 failed.
> New value is 0x8b.
> SPI Configuration is locked down.
> FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-write.
> FREG1: BIOS region (0x00580000-0x00ffffff) is read-write.
> FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x003aefff) is read-write.
> PR0: Warning: 0x00b00000-0x00ffffff is read-only.
> At least some flash regions are write protected. For write operations,
> you should use a flash layout and include only writable regions. See
> manpage for more details.
> OK.
> Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L12805D" (16384 kB, Programmer-specific) on
> internal.
> ===
> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: WP
> The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development
> version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,
> please email a report to [email protected] if any of the above operations
> work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log
> file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention
> which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line.
> You can also try to follow the instructions here:
> https://www.flashrom.org/contrib_howtos/how_to_mark_chip_tested.html
> Thanks for your help!
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Updating flash chip contents... Transaction error between offset 0x00b04000
> and 0x00b04000 (= 0x00b04000 + 0)!
> Erase/write done from 0 to ffffff
> Write Failed!Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
> Reading current flash chip contents... done.
> Apparently at least some data has changed.
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on chat (see https://flashrom.org/contact.html) or mail
> [email protected] with the subject "FAILED: <your board
> name>"!---------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
> What should i do at this point? This is my router.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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