Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom fails on GA-M57SLI with 1MB ROM

[Andreas B. Mundt]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:02:29AM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:19:01PM +0100, Harald Gutmann wrote:
> > > did you use flashrom -E befor writing the new file to the chip?
> >
> > tried that:
> >
> > $ sudo flashrom -E
> > Erasing flash chip
> >
> > $ sudo flashrom -V --verify --write /home/andi/freeBIOS/testbios
>
> Does flashrom -r  actually return a file of all 0xFFs after the erase?

In fact it does not. Most of the file looks as if it is still the
linuxbios.rom.

$ cmp after_erase linuxbios.rom
after_erase linuxbios.rom differ: byte 983041, line 1695

Regards,

Andi