[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

[Dieter Bloms]

Hi,

I tried to flash my bios with flashrom, but it can not write to the
chip, because it may be in a readonly mode.

Does anybody now a workaround ?

awdflash.exe (v8.63c) claims it is not an award bios.
Is there a hidden switch to assure awdflash to write the image ?

[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:34:53PM +0200, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to flash my bios with flashrom, but it can not write to the
> chip, because it may be in a readonly mode.
>
> Does anybody now a workaround ?
>
> awdflash.exe (v8.63c) claims it is not an award bios.
> Is there a hidden switch to assure awdflash to write the image ?
>
> Dieter

Which board is this?

Luc Verhaegen.

[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

[Dieter Bloms]

Hi,

On Wed, May 30, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:34:53PM +0200, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to flash my bios with flashrom, but it can not write to the
> > chip, because it may be in a readonly mode.
> >
> > Does anybody now a workaround ?
> >
> > awdflash.exe (v8.63c) claims it is not an award bios.
> > Is there a hidden switch to assure awdflash to write the image ?
>
> Which board is this?

it is a commell lv671 board:

http://www.commell.com.tw/Support/SBC/LV-671(S).htm

[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:04:29PM +0200, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is a commell lv671 board:
>
> http://www.commell.com.tw/Support/SBC/LV-671(S).htm

Right, this board has an award bios.

The chip and board enables are easy to spot and as such it will be easy 
to convert this to C routines for flashrom. I will be very happy to do 
this when i have the time, which is, at the earliest, somewhere next 
week.

Luc Verhaegen.

[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

[Dieter Bloms]

Hi,

On Thu, May 31, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> The chip and board enables are easy to spot and as such it will be easy 
> to convert this to C routines for flashrom. I will be very happy to do 
> this when i have the time, which is, at the earliest, somewhere next 
> week.

I'm hooked for the great support from all your developers !

Yesterday I tried uniflash and it does flash my bios (ok my bios doesn't
work, but this an another issue ;).

There is the source code available at
http://www.uniflash.org/download/us140.zip

I will test your patches.

[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:34:53PM +0200, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> I tried to flash my bios with flashrom, but it can not write to the
> chip, because it may be in a readonly mode.
>
> Does anybody now a workaround ?
>
> awdflash.exe (v8.63c) claims it is not an award bios.
> Is there a hidden switch to assure awdflash to write the image ?

Dunno, but you have multiple options:

- Fix flashrom
 - Use another computer which is supported by flashrom to flash the image
 - Use Uniflash, see uniflash.org
 - Use a hardware programmer (not exactly cheap, though)

Option 1 is the best, of course.

Uwe.