Anders, Thanks you, I can see how to flash as long as I can boot the machine, otherwise I am in trouble. I wiould have no means to get to that chip and flash it back with the original BIOS........ :(
Is there a way to test if the LinuxBIOS would work, without locking myself out....... ???? Has anyone done this on this board????? Thanks On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Anders Jenbo <and...@jenbo.dk> wrote: > You can flash the original image in the same way as you are going to do > with the coreboot image. flashrom -w imagename.rom > > But if you board fails to boot then you will need to have access to some > thing else that can flash that chip, one option is another motherboard > that uses the same type of chip, or a rom flasher for the type of chip > you have. This requires that the chip is socketed, so that you can > remove it from the board as you write back the old image. > > Another option is to use what is known as a tophat, it will allow you to > install a second flash rom on top of the once that is soldered on to the > board (this only works with plcc32 chips as fare as i know). > > -Anders > > man, 05 07 2010 kl. 20:53 -0500, skrev Daniel J. Celta: > > Ok I was able to determine the ROM chip of the server..... Thank you > > very much... > > > > Now, I did save the original BIOS information using "flashrom -r > > <filename>" > > > > But, not sure I know how to rebuild back the BIOS from this file in > > case needed. > > > > Do you have any suggestions???? > > > > Thanks > > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, and...@jenbo.dk <and...@jenbo.dk> > > wrote: > > Run flashrom with no parameters and it should tell you what > > Rom chip you have. > > > > Before you pull the trigger you should make sure that you have > > a way to recover the original BIOS (with out the use of the > > computer you are doing this to). > > > > Mvh Anders > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > > Fra: "Daniel J. Celta" <dce...@gmail.com> > > Dato: man., jul. 5, 2010 23:02 > > Emne: [coreboot] H8DME-2 > > Til: <coreboot@coreboot.org> > > > > > > Has anyone updated this Supermicro server Board BIOS for the > > H8DME-2...... > > > > I have installed FC10, (i was able to complete this > > installation by turning of the RAID configuration in the > > BIOS), and now I am having trouble when trying to upgrade the > > Operating system to FC13. > > > > > > I suspect, if I update the BIOS, I currently have the version > > of the BIOS that came pre-installed with the server, I may be > > able to upgrade to FC13. > > > > One thing I like to mention, when running "make menuconfig" I > > was not sure of the ROM Chip size, and used the largest > > available setting 4MB. > > > > - How can I check the proper setting for this parameter???? > > > > > > > > So now, I have created the coreboot.rom, and think I am ready > > to run "flashrom"....... > > > > - Is there anything else I need to check before I pull the > > trigger??? > > > > - Has anyone had any problems I should be aware of???? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Daniel > > > > -- > > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > > > > >
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