Am Samstag, den 09.01.2010, 18:28 +0100 schrieb Parallix: > I've a big problem. Of course, I made a backup of my old bios with > flashrom -r oldbios.bin. Then I tried to flash my HP Compaq 615 with > flashrom v0.9.1-r792 and got the following "warning":
Don't worry, we can fix that up, I think. > Found chip "SST SST25VF016B" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000. > Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... > Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x001c0000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xfc, > failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x001fffff: 0x37386 [wrapping by me] That seems to indicate a boot block lock on that chip. The last 256KB of the chip could not be erased, but the first 1.75MB are erased now. > After reading the flash contents with flashrom -r newbios.bin I > compared the old bios with the new one. They differ. What can I now > do? Reflash the old BIOS after disabling the check for successful erase. Delete the "return -1" line at spi.c, line 1008. Regards, Michael Karcher _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
