Hi Parallix, could you join us on IRC in #flashrom at irc.freenode.net so we can debug and fix this problem? Email is a bit slow and IRC is so much faster.
On 09.01.2010 18:28, Parallix wrote: > 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 Ouch. A laptop. Laptops are unsupported because so many things can go wrong. Anyway, we're determined to fix this and we're pretty good at that. > with flashrom v0.9.1-r792 and got the following "warning": > > No coreboot table found. > Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK. > This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI. > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > Found chip "SST SST25VF016B" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000. > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. > 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 > ERASE FAILED! > FAILED! > Looks like a boot block lock. Can fix. > 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? > First of all, don't panic. There's a good chance we can recover. First step: Copy your good backup to another external medium. Too many people destroyed their backups by accident. Second step: Run flashrom -c SST25VF016B -V superiotool -deV lspci -nnvvvxxx dmidecode (all commands as root) and mail the output to [email protected] (just hit reply-all in your mailer). Then join IRC and chat with us. If you don't have an IRC client, you can use the webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=flashrom We may need your backup BIOS image later, but please don't send it to the list for now. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- Developer quote of the year: "We are juggling too many chainsaws and flaming arrows and tigers." _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
