On two boards, one MCP55 based and another CK804, if I flash the proprietary BIOS with: flasrom -wv bios.bin Verification fails and if I try to boot, it doesn't. Have to flash the BIOS in another board based on K8T890 that I have. In that one all works fine, with both BIOS chips I have - one winbond and a PMC. Haven't tried flashing coreboot due to lack of support. Since the chipsets are support, this isn't supposed to happen, right? Best regards, Tiago Marques On 1/27/08, Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de> wrote:
* Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@gmail.com> [080127 16:21]:
Hi. Both failed, tried with two different BIOS chips. Flashing with AWDFlash works fine though. Had to flash it again in a VIA K8T890 board, which works flawlessly. Any ideas, fix?
What's the problem?
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:06:45PM +0000, Tiago Marques wrote:
On two boards, one MCP55 based and another CK804, if I flash the proprietary BIOS with: flasrom -wv bios.bin Verification fails and if I try to boot, it doesn't. Have to flash the BIOS in another board based on K8T890 that I have. In that one all works fine, with both BIOS chips I have - one winbond and a PMC. Haven't tried flashing coreboot due to lack of support. Since the chipsets are support, this isn't supposed to happen, right?
Which board(s)? Which superio? I'm assuming your bios is a plcc chip, not an spi chip? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
Yes, PLCC. SuperIO? The chips are a w39v040B and a Pm49FL004. Tiago Marques On 1/27/08, Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:06:45PM +0000, Tiago Marques wrote:
On two boards, one MCP55 based and another CK804, if I flash the proprietary BIOS with: flasrom -wv bios.bin Verification fails and if I try to boot, it doesn't. Have to flash the BIOS in another board based on K8T890 that I have. In that one all works fine, with both BIOS chips I have - one winbond and a PMC. Haven't tried flashing coreboot due to lack of support. Since the chipsets are support, this isn't supposed to happen, right?
Which board(s)? Which superio? I'm assuming your bios is a plcc chip, not an spi chip?
Thanks, Ward.
-- Ward Vandewege <ward@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
On 27.01.2008 20:19, Tiago Marques wrote:
Yes, PLCC. SuperIO?
See http://www.coreboot.org/Superiotool for details.
The chips are a w39v040B and a Pm49FL004.
Which boards? We need exact vendor name, board name and revision. Regards, Carl-Daniel
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:19:55PM +0000, Tiago Marques wrote:
Yes, PLCC. SuperIO? The chips are a w39v040B and a Pm49FL004.
What *motherboards*? That will tell us which superio is on the board. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
I know that has the hardware monitoring chip. The MCP55 motherboard is a jetway M25GT6 which has the Fintek F71882FG. The CK804 is a Biostar NF4ST-A9 which has the ITE IT8712F-A. Tiago Marques On 1/27/08, Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:19:55PM +0000, Tiago Marques wrote:
Yes, PLCC. SuperIO? The chips are a w39v040B and a Pm49FL004.
What *motherboards*? That will tell us which superio is on the board.
Thanks, Ward.
-- Ward Vandewege <ward@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
Any ideas? From where should I start? Tiago Marques On 1/27/08, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@gmail.com> wrote:
I know that has the hardware monitoring chip. The MCP55 motherboard is a jetway M25GT6 which has the Fintek F71882FG. The CK804 is a Biostar NF4ST-A9 which has the ITE IT8712F-A.
Tiago Marques
On 1/27/08, Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:19:55PM +0000, Tiago Marques wrote:
Yes, PLCC. SuperIO? The chips are a w39v040B and a Pm49FL004.
What *motherboards*? That will tell us which superio is on the board.
Thanks, Ward.
-- Ward Vandewege <ward@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
On 29.01.2008 18:59, Tiago Marques wrote:
Any ideas? From where should I start?
Try to erase a chip with "flashrom -E" (just erase, no write, no verify) and then read back the contents with "flashrom -r". Look at the resulting file with xxd or hexdump and check if it is all 0xff. I suspect that it will not be all 0xff when erased in the problematic boards, but it will be all 0xff when erased in the K8T890 board. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
Finally had some time to test this. The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision. First step is to make it erase? Where should I start? Best regards On 2/8/08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
On 29.01.2008 18:59, Tiago Marques wrote:
Any ideas? From where should I start?
Try to erase a chip with "flashrom -E" (just erase, no write, no verify) and then read back the contents with "flashrom -r". Look at the resulting file with xxd or hexdump and check if it is all 0xff. I suspect that it will not be all 0xff when erased in the problematic boards, but it will be all 0xff when erased in the K8T890 board.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
help? On 6/1/08, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@gmail.com> wrote:
Finally had some time to test this. The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision. First step is to make it erase? Where should I start?
Best regards
On 2/8/08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
On 29.01.2008 18:59, Tiago Marques wrote:
Any ideas? From where should I start?
Try to erase a chip with "flashrom -E" (just erase, no write, no verify) and then read back the contents with "flashrom -r". Look at the resulting file with xxd or hexdump and check if it is all 0xff. I suspect that it will not be all 0xff when erased in the problematic boards, but it will be all 0xff when erased in the K8T890 board.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On 05.06.2008 21:59, Tiago Marques wrote:
help?
On 6/1/08, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@gmail.com> wrote:
Finally had some time to test this. The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision. First step is to make it erase? Where should I start?
Sorry, I will be unavailable for the rest of the month due to diploma thesis work. I hope you can find somebody else on this list to help you. Regards, Carl-Daniel
Help! Can't someone give me some pointers? Tks, Tiago Marques On 6/5/08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
On 05.06.2008 21:59, Tiago Marques wrote:
help?
On 6/1/08, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@gmail.com> wrote:
Finally had some time to test this. The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision. First step is to make it erase? Where should I start?
Sorry, I will be unavailable for the rest of the month due to diploma thesis work. I hope you can find somebody else on this list to help you.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
Dear Tiago, On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:09:07PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote:
Finally had some time to test this. The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision. First step is to make it erase? Where should I start?
If this is the case with both Winbond and PMC flash chips it seems like the write disable signals to the chip were set, but in that case it would not have been possible for flashrom to PROBE successfully. Hm. I am interested in debugging this. Would it be possible for you to join our IRC channel sometime for a more effective session? irc.freenode.net #coreboot If not, we can do email too. :) //Peter
I would rather do it by e-mail, for now. What information would you need? Best regards On 6/21/08, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
Dear Tiago,
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:09:07PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote:
Finally had some time to test this. The erase command does nothing, I was still able to download the full BIOS and boot the machine. This using the latest flashrom revision. First step is to make it erase? Where should I start?
If this is the case with both Winbond and PMC flash chips it seems like the write disable signals to the chip were set, but in that case it would not have been possible for flashrom to PROBE successfully. Hm.
I am interested in debugging this. Would it be possible for you to join our IRC channel sometime for a more effective session?
irc.freenode.net #coreboot
If not, we can do email too. :)
//Peter
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