Oops--I forgot that I'm not running my old crappy mainboard anymore and my current one *does* have a socketed PLCC.
Richard does have a good idea, though. Yhlu added a start and end exclusion option to flash rom to specify which portions of the ROM to erase and reprogram. I have not tried it yet as this patch was made specifically for the pm49fl004 (The standard ROM on a bunch of Tyan boards). I also seem to recall that this required IO chipset support for legacy programming mode, but I could be wrong on that point. Still, perhaps this would help out Mr. Brown if it could be adapted to whatever his board uses. PS -- Sorry for the dupe, Richard! On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:06:18 -0600 Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/27/05, David Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MSI does the same thing with their dual BIOS approach--I found > > out the hard way from purchasing a K8N-Neo3. My advice is to avoid > > these gimmicky 0v3rc!0ck3r BIOSes and get a BIOS Savior RD-1 or > > something if you can get your hands on a socketed mainboard. > > If you can find out what the address is that the recovery image jumps > to after boot then it seems possible to add Linuxbios there without > nuking your recovery code. > > You would have to modify the flash programer to not erase the sections > where your recovery stuff was and add some sort of offset ability as > well. > > > Or, I think someone on this list (Bari Ari?) can modify your board > > to use socketed flash parts as well. > > Is the flash a PLCC or TSOP? > > -- > Richard A. Smith -- LinuxBIOS mailing list LinuxBIOS@openbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
