Reboot successful. All is good, Stefan. Many thanks, ~Dan
On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 23:50 +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:16:24 -0600 > Dan Kern Photo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Stefan! > > Thanks for the fast reply! And the comforting words (although panic is > > for noobs, yes?) :-) > > well we regularly receive similar emails, followed later by some > regretful confessions that they have rebooted nevertheless. so we > really try to make that point clear. :) > > > I updated flashrom as you suggested and ran it again. Thanks for that. > > I think it worked fine. Here's the output: > > > > > > desktop2@Desktop2:~/Downloads$ sudo flashrom -w 1101.BIN > > flashrom v0.9.5.2-runknown on Linux 2.6.32-40-generic-pae > > (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.3, little endian > > flashrom is free software, get the source code at > > http://www.flashrom.org > > > > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > > Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51". Enabling flash write... OK. > > Disabling flash write protection for board "ASUS M2NBP-VM > > CSM"... OK. > > Found SST flash chip "SST49LF040B" (512 kB, LPC) at physical > > address 0xfff80000. > > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling > > coreboot-related checks. > > Reading old flash chip contents... done. > > Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done. > > Verifying flash... VERIFIED. > > desktop2@Desktop2:~/Downloads$ > > > > > > What say you, doctor? > > Thanks again. > > seems like everything is fine now. > if flashrom says verified at the end it has read the contents of the > flash after writing it and found it to be equal to the file supplied. > so if 1101.BIN contained a valid firmware for that board, everything is > fine and you can reboot whenever you want to. >
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