On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Anders Jenbo <anders@jenbo.dk> wrote:

You can flash the original image in the same way as you are going to do
with the coreboot image. flashrom -w imagename.rom

But if you board fails to boot then you will need to have access to some
thing else that can flash that chip, one option is another motherboard
that uses the same type of chip, or a rom flasher for the type of chip
you have. This requires that the chip is socketed, so that you can
remove it from the board as you write back the old image.

Another option is to use what is known as a tophat, it will allow you to
install a second flash rom on top of the once that is soldered on to the
board (this only works with plcc32 chips as fare as i know).

-Anders

man, 05 07 2010 kl. 20:53 -0500, skrev Daniel J. Celta:

> Ok I was able to determine the ROM chip of the server..... Thank you
> very much...
>
> Now, I did save the original BIOS information using "flashrom -r
> <filename>"
>
> But, not sure I know how to rebuild back the BIOS from this file in
> case needed.
>
> Do you have any suggestions????
>
> Thanks
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, anders@jenbo.dk <anders@jenbo.dk>
> wrote:
> Run flashrom with no parameters and it should tell you what
> Rom chip you have.
>
> Before you pull the trigger you should make sure that you have
> a way to recover the original BIOS (with out the use of the
> computer you are doing this to).
>
> Mvh Anders
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> Fra: "Daniel J. Celta" <dcelta@gmail.com>
> Dato: man., jul. 5, 2010 23:02
> Emne: [coreboot] H8DME-2
> Til: <coreboot@coreboot.org>
>
>
> Has anyone updated this Supermicro server Board BIOS for the
> H8DME-2......
>
> I have installed FC10, (i was able to complete this
> installation by turning of the RAID configuration in the
> BIOS), and now I am having trouble when trying to upgrade the
> Operating system to FC13.
>
>
> I suspect, if I update the BIOS, I currently have the version
> of the BIOS that came pre-installed with the server, I may be
> able to upgrade to FC13.
>
> One thing I like to mention, when running "make menuconfig" I
> was not sure of the ROM Chip size, and used the largest
> available setting 4MB.
>
> - How can I check the proper setting for this parameter????
>
>
>
> So now, I have created the coreboot.rom, and think I am ready
> to run "flashrom".......
>
> - Is there anything else I need to check before I pull the
> trigger???
>
> - Has anyone had any problems I should be aware of????
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
>
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