2007/6/14, Dieter Bloms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 14, Corey Osgood wrote: > > > Alright, looking just at the possible flashing issue for the moment, if > > you flash the original bios (to your spare chip) does it work correctly? > > And please remind me, what board and flash part are you using? Epia? > > Also, what does flashrom do? > > I've a commell lv671 board with W39V040FA bios chip and Winbound > w83627hf-aw super-io chip. > > If I burn the factory bios the page count increase from 0001 to 0007 and > takes about 20 seconds/page: > > video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -w > originalbios.img > Calibrating delay loop... ok > No LinuxBIOS table found. > Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. > W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 > Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. > Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 > video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -v > originalbios.img > Calibrating delay loop... ok > No LinuxBIOS table found. > Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. > W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 > Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. > Verifying flash - FAILED > > the same with linuxbios, but the burning takes about 10 seconds for the > whole burn: > > video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -w > ../../targets/commell/lv671/lv671/linuxbios.rom > Calibrating delay loop... ok > No LinuxBIOS table found. > Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. > W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 > Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) > Note: If the following flash access fails, you might need to specify -m > <vendor>:<mainboard> > Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 > video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -v > ../../targets/commell/lv671/lv671/linuxbios.rom > Calibrating delay loop... ok > No LinuxBIOS table found. > Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. > W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 > Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) > Note: If the following flash access fails, you might need to specify -m > <vendor>:<mainboard> > Verifying flash - FAILED
Have you tried reading the flash after burning and compare that image to the one you used when burning? I always get verify fail but it works anyway. /Thomas -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios