[LinuxBIOS] pre-bricking an A8N-E ! - coreboot

29 Aug 2007


      I am glad you're asking this question (please also refer to MIT's  "The 
Hacker's dictionary / jargon file)
"*to brick*" a router (for example) can be done by flashing non-working 
firmware into it rendering it useless without chance for reversal. It is 
an expensive door-stop, a brick, or a letter weight or sth. low-tec 
after that.
a "de-bricking" utility is one ( notorious is the debricking tool by a 
guy who likes to call himself  *"hairy dairy maid"* and used in the 
openWRT router project, employing a JPEG hardware interface)
pre-bricking thus might refer to a process where a mainboard is flashed 
with a disfunctional BIOS image, thus bricking it - but where it is done 
with a chance of reversal with further expenditure on additional hard-soft/w
       it is only in a pre-brick state even though delivering the final 
blow to it would not be much harder !
--Q
Robert Vogel schrieb:
...
This is probably a dumb question.
What is "pre-bricking" ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Quux" pawn2be.wild@yahoo.de
To: "LinuxBIOS" linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:00 PM
Subject: [LinuxBIOS] yo, pre-bricking an A8N-E !
wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at
ebay for €22.
I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current
revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of  20000hex as in the M57SLI
target. Once I fixed that I could flash the current revision - and the
POST card gives me a steady 80.
I keep you guys informed but the ASUS A8N target is not even flashable
currently (Also the wiki - downloadable ROM image is bad size (20000hex
required)).
I plan to put together a CDROM .ISO file (a remastered dream linux) with
the LB tree and ready-to-flash working filo-ROM-image. should be a
quickie.     --Q