Re: Suggested mechanism of burning a LinuxBIOS on FLASH ROMS

[Jeremy Jackson]

There is work being done to allow the EEPROM socket of certain network
cards to be used as a flash programmer.  Also see the devbios project.

Regards,

Jeremy

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:52, Deepak Kotian wrote:
> Hi,
> This may be a very basic simple question, but I do not know a very
>
> good answer/solution
>     to do this.
> If I want to burn LinuxBIOS, I can use the burn_mtd script , it
>
> may write it
>     successfully as well, but if linuxbios is not correctly built. I
> cannot get the 
>     any O.S started on this machine, which means I would need to
> replace the
>     BIOS FLASH ROM with a one with proper BIOS and bring up the
> machine.
>     Is there a way I can re-program the old BIOS on to the corrupted
> FLASH ROMS.
>     Please note,I do not have a PLC or any kind of FLASH programmer
> with me. Can
>     I do without it.
> If there are any suggestions, please let me know.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Deepak