Re: [coreboot] flashrom claims T60 is unsupported

[Richard Simpson]

Carl-Daniel,

Thanks.  Despite the scary nature of the command and my lack of actual
desire for a brick, that seems to have worked to get the new bios in.
Sadly the screen is still black.  I have created a separate thread to
ask about that rather different problem.

Richard Simpson

On 27/06/15 19:26, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 27.06.2015 15:20, Richard Simpson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have had partial success with flashing my T60.  After the first flash
> > the laptop re-booted OK, but the screen is completely black.  Fiddling
> > with the backlight buttons doesn't have any effect.  Fortunately, I can
> > connect via ssh so I am not locked out.
> >
> > I believe that my mistake was to put my ATI VGA bios into coreboot
> > rather than SeaBIOS.  I have now corrected this but I can't flash the
> > updated version.  For the first flash I used the following command:
> >
> > ./flashrom/i686/flashrom_lenovobios_sst -p internal -w coreboot.rom
> >
> > I got loads of errors as mentioned in the instructions, but it seemed to
> > work.  Since I now want to do another flash I have followed the
> > instructions and used this simpler command:
> >
> > ./flashrom/i686/flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > flashrom v0.9.8-unknown on Linux 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
> >
> > Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> > coreboot table found at 0xbfea0000.
> > ========================================================================
> > WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop.
> > Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we
> > recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller
> > (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.
> > See the manpage and http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
> >
> > If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
> > and write may brick your laptop.
> > Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
> > failure and sudden poweroff.
> > You have been warned.
> > ========================================================================
> > Aborting.
> > Error: Programmer initialization failed.
> >
> > I have tried flashrom, flashrom_lenovobios_sst and
> > flashrom_lenovobios_macronix and get the same error every time.  I have
> > also tried re-flashing the current working but blank screen bios and
> > that won't go in either.
> >
> > Suggestions gratefully received.
>
> flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w coreboot.rom
>
> That should work.
>
> Then take care of bucts again.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel