On Sunday 25 November 2007 11:45, Corey Osgood wrote: ... > Some HP laptops these days use SPI flash, which flashrom can do only in > one special situation (afaik), Gigabyte m57sli. Also, the flash may have > protection coming from the embedded controller or GPIO lines, which > flashrom knows nothing about. > > Last time I flashed my HP laptop's bios, I took a windows 98se iso, > added the bios and flash utility to it with an iso editor, and then > burned and booted from it. I ran the utility through dos, and it worked > fine. This should also work fine with a custom cd and the floppy > emulation, with a 98se boot disk as the source. K3b can do the dirty work. ... > Sorry, can't be of much help. > > -Corey
Yeah, I know there's a good chance that it won't work. But I'm willing to give it a shot if I can. HP is stingy with h/w info, and I haven't yet figured out the secret handshake to open the case and see who's m/b it is. I've been able to determine that it uses NVidia MCP51, which has a "?" under the supported column. Maybe I can at least contribute to getting it supported. Shocky -- These are my opinions. Get your own. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
