Ok, so I have downloaded and compiled flashrom from source and it sees my Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V". When I first installed coreboot I backed up my original firmware, but I have two files. The first is from the command "flashrom -r stock-firmware.rom", and the second is from the command "chromeos-firmwareupdate --sb_extract ." Both files are the same size, but diff tells me that they are different. I understand that the first one is the stock firmware read straight from the flash chip, and the second command gets you a copy of the parts of the current firmware which can't be read by flashrom if running on the target machine. So, which one of these two files do I flash back into my C7? I read at http://chromebooklinux.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html that you can check the validity of a firmware backup by looking at address 0x00001000 of the firmware file, if that byte contains 0xFF the backup is invalid, but neither of my two original backup files have 0xFF at that address. Since I haven't completely bricked my chromebook I want to make sure I don't flash a bad firmware backup in as this might be my last chance to save it without requiring an external programmer.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Idwer Vollering vidwer@gmail.com wrote:
2014-02-20 9:38 GMT+01:00 Justin Roylance justin.roylance@gmail.com:
the flashrom utility in Kubuntu says no chipset found and no EEPROM/flash
device found.
The version that Kubuntu ships could very well be outdated. (dist-)upgrade your installation and/or see http://flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source
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