* Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org [061013 20:05]:
I've read both the original flash image and the bios-savior one. Reading is *very* fast, not more than 2 seconds for the 512KB image.
That sounds fine.
I've also tried burning the original image (read via flashrom) to the bios savior, but that failed:
# ./flashrom -v -w orig.img Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Enabling flash write on NVidia MCP51...OK Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB) Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 Verifying flash - FAILED
can you do a -Vv to find out where it fails? And try writing several times, then verifying to see if that helps...
Can you also try and check whether there's something else then 0xff in the addresses that failed?
Writing was *very* slow - it took wel over a minute before it was done.
This is ugly, but probably not unusually slow. :(