Hi! Just a few minutes ago I've built my first linuxbios romimage. This week, I bought a RD1-PL BiosSavior for my MB (PLCC socket) and installed it. For all this week, the BiosSavior has been working, with the switch on "ORG" position, and correctly loading factory bios.
And, for writing my new BIOS to the "backup" memory of the BiosSavior, I did put the switch to the RD1 position, and then #./flash_rom romimage. Ok, it seems to be well written to the memory, but before trying to load the new linuxbios I wanted to boot using the old and... It will not boot!! With the switch on ORG position, using the serial console, I can see LinuxBios boot up, but I hangs (this does not worry my at this time), but the only way I can boot my mobo is removing the biossavior and installing the original flash chip into the original socket... Did I bought the wrong BiosSavior? What happens??
Thanks.
Ignacio Verona wrote:
Hi! Just a few minutes ago I've built my first linuxbios romimage. This week, I bought a RD1-PL BiosSavior for my MB (PLCC socket) and installed it. For all this week, the BiosSavior has been working, with the switch on "ORG" position, and correctly loading factory bios.
And, for writing my new BIOS to the "backup" memory of the BiosSavior, I did put the switch to the RD1 position, and then #./flash_rom romimage. Ok, it seems to be well written to the memory, but before trying to load the new linuxbios I wanted to boot using the old and... It will not boot!! With the switch on ORG position, using the serial console, I can see LinuxBios boot up, but I hangs (this does not worry my at this time), but the only way I can boot my mobo is removing the biossavior and installing the original flash chip into the original socket... Did I bought the wrong BiosSavior? What happens??
The flash part that they are using in the newer RD1-PL's is kind of crappy. It takes me quite a few tries to get it to flash properly. I have put the original bios onto the RD1 and do my LinuxBIOS developing on the original flash part. I suspect you are probably in the same situation.
Flash with your switch set to RD1 and then do a verify to make sure that it worked ok.. Repeat if not until you are successful. This has taken me someitmes 10 times to get a correct flash.. I don't know if it's flash_rom's fault or the flash part. I suspect the latter is the problem since there is never a problem flashing the original part.
John
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