I had alot of problems with the RD1 bios savior on my EPIA5000 board. I lost track of the times I tried to flash it, it certainly seemed alot more than 10 times. In the end I wrote a small script to just sit there and try and flash the RD1 bios until it verified. It actually worked on the 5th attempt. I now have the original bios in the RD1 flash and am using the on-board flash for linuxbios (although it does not boot yet). The on-board flash, programs first time. There is a note on the Linuxbios web site about the RD1 bios savior and the fact that it doesn't program very well. Of course the EPIA-M has a different chipset so there may be other problems, but I suspect it is just down to the flash on the RD1.
Ben
- lists@actweb.info lists@actweb.info [060809 01:49]:
i have an EPIA-M m/board with an SST39SF020A bios chip, along with an RD1-PL 2Mbit bios savour, are these both 2Mb chips? i have tried writing the RD1 with a image file, but it always fails :( anyone any pointers?
have so far tried to write image aprox 8 times, still with no luck :( this is the output from flashrom :-
Have you tried to write it and read it back? I get the same error
Enabling flash write on VT8235...tried to set 0x45 to 0x55 on VT8235 failed (WARNING ONLY)
ocassionally, but writing works fine.
Stefan