[Please always reply to the mailing list, not individual developers] On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:26:12PM -0800, roger wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 19:31 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:53:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: > > > roger wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:00 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > > > > > > > I've had the serial cable setup a couple years ago & working but was > > > > having problems flashing any builds to my bios chips as it seemed, at > > > > the time, Intel had masked the BIOS to prevent flashing unless it was > > > > first unmasked. (Unknown if the current flash script in V2 works and/or > > > > MTD finds the masked BIOS chip on my Tyan 1832DL or 440BX boards.) > > > > > > > > > > I think I'm seeing the same thing, flashrom doesn't seem to be able to > > > see the BIOS chip (although it does find the northbridge correctly). So > > > I'm using a windows 98se boot floppy without the ramdisk, with dos-mode > > > USB drivers, award's aflash, and a usb flash drive that I'm using to > > > transfer built bios' with. I'd almost say it works better than flashrom, > > > since I don't need to boot a full linux system to flash, but that's just > > > my opinion (and this situation). > > > > I'd like to fix flashrom if possible. You probably need to add some > > board-specific code to util/flashrom/flash_enable.c, see for example: > > http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/browser/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/flash_enable.c#L472 > > > > FWIW, I'm using my Gigabyte GA-6BXC board (440BX, PIIX4) to flash > > LinuxBIOS images, and it works just fine. > > > > > > Uwe. > > > Right... Intel written all over my board except for the name Tyan > > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host > bridge (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP > bridge (rev 03) > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev > 01) > 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev > 01) > 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) That looks like it should work. If it doesn't it's quite probably a mainboard-specific issue. > -- > Roger > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 > > Thu Mar 1 15:24:41 PST 2007
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