Re: [coreboot] [flashrom] flashrom problem: will not flash on compaq/deskpro Deskpro EN SFF P600

[Ludwig Jaffe]

Hi!

thank you for your info.
Could you document your steps a little bit?
Ok, I thought about closing the jumper P34.

The AppNote of st says one only has to rise pin1 (reset) to vid=12V to 
temporarily
unprotect the flash. -> but 12V can cause harm to other devices, and I 
do not know the circuitry of the board.
So this feature seems to be jumper P34. I will try.

Fortunately I managed to rewrite the old bios in the unporotected 
sectors (the protected sectors were not modified by
erase and write). So reboot should be safe.

Attached you find my coreboot.bin together with the filo config. (The 
Flash is damn small, one wants to have more space. Which upgrades are
supported? If I solder a socket I easily could upgrade to a bigger flash)

Is my coreboot kosher? does it boot?

Many thanks

LuJa

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda3       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda4       /data           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda1       /dos            vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda2       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

# !!! NOTE !!!
# Do NOT add spaces or comments at the end of option lines.
# It confuses some versions of make.

# Use grub instead of autoboot?
USE_GRUB = 1

# Grub menu.lst path
MENULST_FILE = "hda3:/boot/filo/menu.lst"
# Via Epia-MII CF boot:
#MENULST_FILE = "hde1:/boot/filo/menu.lst"

# time before default menu.lst is chosen. Set to 0 to ignore
MENULST_TIMEOUT = 5

###Default parameters for Autoboot (if USE_GRUB is set to 0)
# Image filename for automatic boot and optional command line parameter
AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hda3:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "mem@0xfff80000"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hde1@0"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "uda1:/vmlinuz.elf"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "flashb@0x00400000,0x154a00 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"

# Time in second before booting AUTOBOOT_FILE
AUTOBOOT_DELAY = 2

# Driver for hard disk, CompactFlash, and CD-ROM on IDE bus
IDE_DISK = 1

# Add a short delay when polling status registers 
# (required on some broken SATA controllers)
# NOTE: Slows down access significantly, so disable 
# whenever possible.
#IDE_DISK_POLL_DELAY = 1

# SATA drives seem to have problems reporting their spinup.
# This will delay FILO start by 5s so the disks have some time to settle.
# (required on some broken SATA controllers)
# NOTE: Slows down access significantly, so disable 
# whenever possible.
#SLOW_SATA = 1

# Use PCMCIA compact flash on Via Epia MII10000 and MII6000E
# This device is referred to as hde.
PCMCIA_CF = 0

# Driver for USB Storage
USB_DISK = 0

# Driver for NAND flash storage
FLASH_DISK = 0

# VGA text console
VGA_CONSOLE = 1
PC_KEYBOARD = 1

# Serial console 
SERIAL_CONSOLE = 1
SERIAL_IOBASE = 0x3f8
# if SERIAL_SPEED is commented out, the speed will not be changed.
SERIAL_SPEED = 115200

# Filesystems
FSYS_EXT2FS = 1
FSYS_FAT = 1
FSYS_JFS = 0
FSYS_MINIX = 0
FSYS_REISERFS = 1
FSYS_XFS = 0
FSYS_ISO9660 = 1
FSYS_CRAMFS = 0
FSYS_SQUASHFS = 0

# Support for boot disk image in bootable CD-ROM (El Torito)
ELTORITO = 1

# PCI support
SUPPORT_PCI = 1

# Enable this to scan PCI busses above bus 0
# AMD64 based boards do need this.
PCI_BRUTE_SCAN = 1

# Sound support (needs SUPPORT_PCI)
SUPPORT_SOUND = 0

# Sound drivers
VIA_SOUND = 0

# Debugging
DEBUG_ALL = 0
DEBUG_ELFBOOT = 0
DEBUG_ELFNOTE = 0
DEBUG_LINUXBIOS = 0
DEBUG_MALLOC = 0
DEBUG_MULTIBOOT = 0
DEBUG_SEGMENT = 0
DEBUG_SYS_INFO = 0
DEBUG_TIMER = 0
DEBUG_BLOCKDEV = 0
DEBUG_PCI = 0
DEBUG_VIA_SOUND = 0
DEBUG_LINUXLOAD = 0
DEBUG_IDE = 0
DEBUG_USB = 0
DEBUG_ELTORITO = 0
DEBUG_FLASH = 0
DEBUG_ARTECBOOT = 0

# i386 options

# Loader for standard Linux kernel image, a.k.a. /vmlinuz
LINUX_LOADER = 1

# Loader for Windows CE image
# Leave disabled for now. Not supported.
WINCE_LOADER = 0

# Artecboot loader support
ARTEC_BOOT = 0

# Boot FILO from Multiboot loader (eg. GRUB)
MULTIBOOT_IMAGE = 0