Hi,
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:21:32AM -0800, dedmons wrote:
I looked into LinuxBios many years ago, but never tried to burn a new BIOS.
Now, given that many appear to be flashable onboard by the motherboard itself, I decided to give it another look.
Hm, I don't know enough about these things, but: I'm not sure that once you flash your own image on the BIOS chip it will still be able to be flashed "on-board" as it was before!?
Is this flash-code in an extra ROM (or similar) so that it's protected from being overwritten?
You should prepare a backup of your original BIOS anyway, IMHO. You could get another BIOS chip (they cost ca. 5 bucks or so) and flash your original BIOS on that, then test it.
You can then use our flashrom tool to flash any images you like...
My machines motherboard has the following:
board: MSI-K7N2GM-L, Athlon XP, NVidia chipset
Which chipset exactly?
The mainboard per se is not yet supported, but some parts of your hardware are.
- Pheonix Bios D686(?) Bios 18195747
This is not relevant. You need to peel off the sticker from the BIOS. Then you'll see some ID numbers which identify the chip itself.
- Nvidia NForce2 MCP F85055-R4 0348A4
Ugh, sorry, I can't say anything about this. I hate these marketing names for chipsets, I never know which "real" names of the chips they refer to... Is there some official/complete list somewhere?
As for NVIDIA, we currently support MCP55 and Ck804.
- WinBond W83627HF-AW
Yep, that's supported. This means you could get out serial (debugging) output from the board.
Uwe.