I recently got my hands on a Thinkpad X60, one of the few laptops supported by Coreboot. Following the wiki instructions for installing on this machine, I opened up the case to find the BIOS chip model to make sure I could apply a correct patch against flashrom and avoid bricking the machine. I can't seem to identify the BIOS chip, though, and I don't see any chips on the motherboard labeled with anything present in flashrom's sources.
Can anyone help me? Where is the BIOS chip located on your X60? Is there any other advice you can give me about how to identify the BIOS chip? I have a few pictures of the top and bottom of the motherboard that I can post later if that would help.
Thanks!
Alex Griffin wrote:
I recently got my hands on a Thinkpad X60, one of the few laptops supported by Coreboot. Following the wiki instructions for installing on this machine, I opened up the case to find the BIOS chip model to make sure I could apply a correct patch against flashrom and avoid bricking the machine. I can't seem to identify the BIOS chip, though, and I don't see any chips on the motherboard labeled with anything present in flashrom's sources.
Can anyone help me? Where is the BIOS chip located on your X60? Is there any other advice you can give me about how to identify the BIOS chip? I have a few pictures of the top and bottom of the motherboard that I can post later if that would help.
Just patch flashrom and run it. It will work fine and you will not brick the machine unless you erase the chip and then power off the machine.
If you have some doubts then solder a header to the flash chip so that you can program it from the outside.
The flash chip is located on the underside of the mainboard, opposite of the wifi Mini-PCIe card. It's an SO-8 package with a coloured small dot in the corner.
//Peter
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