On 25.08.2007 19:43, Andre Majorel wrote: > I need to upgrade the Award BIOS on an MSI motherboard. Rather > than following MSI's procedure (boot on Windows system floppy and > run AWFL####.EXE), I'm thinking of booting on a Linux CD and using > flashrom. > > Are there any particular pitfalls to doing that ?
Yes. You may lose the MAC address of your board. > A dump of the current BIOS (flashrom -r bios.bin) reveals that the > flash ROM contains some machine-dependent data in three areas > (0h-5C0h, 1000h, 74E31h-74E3Fh). Am I supposed to use -s and -e to > skirt around it ? Or do I just flash the whole 512 kB and re-do > the BIOS config ? I'm not sure -s -e work with your flash chip yet. > The motherboard is an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum V1. The flash chip is > a Pm49FL004T-33JC. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
