On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:34:49PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to say thanks and report that I just successfully flashed > the BIOS of my brand-new mainboard Supermicro X7SPA-HF¹ using flashrom. > > After wasting a whole evening trying to make a 4MB BIOS image fit onto a > (virtual) floppy, I stumbled upon flashrom again and, without much > thought, decided to give it a try. I tried reading the current BIOS > first and after that worked I flashed the file X7SPA0.526 from the > current zip download. I ignored the message that erasing is untested and > another one that suggested that a single block or something like that > couldn't be eraed. After five minutes of waiting I became a little bit > nervous, but two or three minutes later flashrom was finished and I > could reboot successfully.
Thanks for the report, we marked the board as supported. Just to make sure -- the board booted fine after the flashing _and_ it had the new BIOS image on it (BIOS version increased)? If possible, could you please re-try the latest version from svn and send the write logs (use -V and -w)? Thanks, Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://sigrok.org http://randomprojects.org | http://unmaintained-free-software.org _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
