[LinuxBIOS] successfully flashed Asus M2A-VM,

[Rodney Crossman]

just an fyi that I successfully flashed the bios on an Asus M2A-VM motherboard which has an amd 690G chipset.  System has been power cycled and all is working.  Thank you all for providing this extremely useful tool.

# ./flashrom -wv m2a1301.bin
Calibrating delay loop... ok
No LinuxBIOS table found.
WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail.
SST49LF080A found at physical address: 0xfff00000
Flash part is SST49LF080A (1024 KB)
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Programming Page: 0255 at address: 0x000ff000
Verifying flash - VERIFIED

Rodney

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[ron minnich]

On 9/30/07, Rodney Crossman  wrote:
> WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail.
> SST49LF080A found at physical address: 0xfff00000

It occurs to me that the 'will most likely fail' message is too
pessimistic. Anybody want to reword it :-)

I get that message all the time, followed by the 'OH! I found this flash part!"

Maybe even do this:

Note: flashrom has no support for this chipset.

Then set an internal variable indicating that there was no chipset support.

And then, if and only if no flash part is found, AND the chipset was
not supported:
Warning: no flash part identified, this *may* be due to the fact the
flashrom has no special code for this chipset.

thanks

ron

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:06:54AM -0500, Rodney Crossman wrote:
> just an fyi that I successfully flashed the bios on an Asus M2A-VM motherboard which has an amd 690G chipset.  System has been power cycled and all is working.  Thank you all for providing this extremely useful tool.
>
> # ./flashrom -wv m2a1301.bin
> Calibrating delay loop... ok
> No LinuxBIOS table found.
> WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail.
> SST49LF080A found at physical address: 0xfff00000
> Flash part is SST49LF080A (1024 KB)
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Programming Page: 0255 at address: 0x000ff000
> Verifying flash - VERIFIED

Just to clarify -- you flashed a _different_ image than that which was
on the ROM chip already?

Uwe.