Oops--I forgot that I'm not running my old crappy mainboard anymore and my current one *does* have a socketed PLCC.
Richard does have a good idea, though. Yhlu added a start and end exclusion option to flash rom to specify which portions of the ROM to erase and reprogram. I have not tried it yet as this patch was made specifically for the pm49fl004 (The standard ROM on a bunch of Tyan boards). I also seem to recall that this required IO chipset support for legacy programming mode, but I could be wrong on that point. Still, perhaps this would help out Mr. Brown if it could be adapted to whatever his board uses.
PS -- Sorry for the dupe, Richard!
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:06:18 -0600 Richard Smith smithbone@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/27/05, David Hendricks cro_marmot@comcast.net wrote:
MSI does the same thing with their dual BIOS approach--I found out the hard way from purchasing a K8N-Neo3. My advice is to avoid these gimmicky 0v3rc!0ck3r BIOSes and get a BIOS Savior RD-1 or something if you can get your hands on a socketed mainboard.
If you can find out what the address is that the recovery image jumps to after boot then it seems possible to add Linuxbios there without nuking your recovery code.
You would have to modify the flash programer to not erase the sections where your recovery stuff was and add some sort of offset ability as well.
Or, I think someone on this list (Bari Ari?) can modify your board to use socketed flash parts as well.
Is the flash a PLCC or TSOP?
-- Richard A. Smith