Tested flashing with the backup file: sudo flashrom -w BACKUP.ROM flashrom v0.9.1-r993 on Linux 2.6.32-19-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.3 No coreboot table found. ======================================================================== WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on a laptop. Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details. ======================================================================== Found chipset "VIA VT8235", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Disabling flash write protection for board "Acer Ferrari 3400"... OK. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "SST SST39SF040" (512 KB, Parallel) at physical address 0xfff80000. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to [email protected] if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV, -wV, -EV), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested. Thanks for your help! === Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... SUCCESS. Programming page: DONE!ss: 0x0007f000 COMPLETE. Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
Looked good, so I shut down the computer and it came up as normal. Well done Michael ;-) How do I remove the unneeded stuff from the .WHP file? When I tried to flash with it, it gave me: Error: Image size doesn't match 2010/4/12 Michael Karcher <[email protected]>: > Am Montag, den 12.04.2010, 00:50 +0200 schrieb Magnus Alm: >> "sudo flashrom" doesn't cause any problems now. > Cool, looks like I got it right. > >> "sudo flashrom -r BACKUP.ROM" works also tho the created file is >> smaller than the downloaded file. >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524288 2010-04-12 00:36 BACKUP.ROM >> -rw-r--r-- 1 magnus magnus 525894 2004-10-19 09:32 ZI5_3C23.WPH >> >> That might not be so strange if the downloaded file also contains >> information about "magic bits". > The .WPH file format contains flashing instructions appended to the > image, while the BACKUP.ROM does not. Your backup is exactly 512*1024 > bytes big. If you want to try flashing the new image (which will most > likely work), you should keep the data from the BACKUP.ROM at offsets > 0x10000..0x11fff, as this 8KB area contains BIOS system information. (I > extracted this information from the appended stuff in the .WPH file) > The first 0xE000 bytes in your flash BIOS contain the code for the > embedded controller. > > Regards, > Michael Karcher > _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
