Re: [coreboot] flashing problem on MSI-7260

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:09:26PM +0530, malatesh kamatad wrote:
> Hi all ..
>     In  AsRock  motherboard  the  flashing  works fine ..But in MSI-7260
>
> flashing is not happening ,
>     is there any idea? i followed these procedure...
>
>     i downloaded the PM49LF004B bios content from the       website i,e
>
> K8UVM8_1.70 .
>
> [root@turtle22 ~]# flashrom -E
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
> Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
> Erasing flash chip
> Erasing page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
>
> [root@turtle22 ~]# flashrom -w K8UVM8_1.70
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... 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

This is a known issue, see status table at
http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom#Supported_mainboards

For some reason flashrom on the MS-7260 works fine when booted via
coreboot, but not when booted via the original, proprietary BIOS.
I don't know _why_ that's the case or how to fix it.

You might want to try to flash the chip in a different box
if possible (via "hot-swapping"). If your AsRock board has a socketed
BIOS chip too, that'll probably work (but make sure you have backups etc).

HTH, Uwe.