Operating Systems for coreboot/flashrom/etc?

[Clay Daniels]

I am a big FreeBSD fan, and also run NetBSD on an older machine. Haven't
used much Linux lately but installed Ubuntu to get a lspci for flashrom
use. Ubuntu is fine, but does not have superiotool available as best I see.
Looking back to FreeBSD I found superiotool just where I expected, as a
port to be compiled under sysutils. Works fine, but still never finds my
hidden bios I will call "SPI1" for lack of a better name.

Anyway, I keep looking for more tools, and have an extra disk drive for
another OS if anyone has any good suggestions?

Right now I'm in Ubuntu, listening to the coreboot & flashrom freenode IRC
channels. Quite a lot goes on there if you catch it right. Some real sharp
guys.

Clay

[flashrom] Operating Systems for coreboot/flashrom/etc?

[Miraz Shuvra]

Hello sir ,

I need a little bit help

I accidentally corrupted bios of my laptop during bios update
...before it blackout... i saw the txt .." searching for bios firmware ...
bios firmware not found "

I baught a ch341A usb bios programming device ...
I think a .bin file may bring my laptop back to life.

My laptop ran with ami bios
The bios chip is 25Q80DVS IG 1646

Can you pls help me anyway.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:49 AM Clay Daniels 
wrote:
> I am a big FreeBSD fan, and also run NetBSD on an older machine. Haven't
> used much Linux lately but installed Ubuntu to get a lspci for flashrom
> use. Ubuntu is fine, but does not have superiotool available as best I see.
> Looking back to FreeBSD I found superiotool just where I expected, as a
> port to be compiled under sysutils. Works fine, but still never finds my
> hidden bios I will call "SPI1" for lack of a better name.
>
> Anyway, I keep looking for more tools, and have an extra disk drive for
> another OS if anyone has any good suggestions?
>
> Right now I'm in Ubuntu, listening to the coreboot & flashrom freenode IRC
> channels. Quite a lot goes on there if you catch it right. Some real sharp
> guys.
>
> Clay
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[flashrom] Re: Operating Systems for coreboot/flashrom/etc?

[Ivan Ivanov]

You need to 1) get a .bin file somewhere (BIOS ROM) - either from the
owner that has the same laptop, or from your laptop's company. 2) get
a test clip like SOIC8 , to attach to a BIOS chip without soldering
and flash it

пн, 12 окт. 2020 г. в 09:15, Miraz Shuvra :
> Hello sir ,
>
> I need a little bit help
>
> I accidentally corrupted bios of my laptop during bios update
> ...before it blackout... i saw the txt .." searching for bios firmware ... bios firmware not found "
>
> I baught a ch341A usb bios programming device ...
> I think a .bin file may bring my laptop back to life.
>
> My laptop ran with ami bios
> The bios chip is 25Q80DVS IG 1646
>
> Can you pls help me anyway.
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:49 AM Clay Daniels  wrote:
> > I am a big FreeBSD fan, and also run NetBSD on an older machine. Haven't used much Linux lately but installed Ubuntu to get a lspci for flashrom use. Ubuntu is fine, but does not have superiotool available as best I see. Looking back to FreeBSD I found superiotool just where I expected, as a port to be compiled under sysutils. Works fine, but still never finds my hidden bios I will call "SPI1" for lack of a better name.
> >
> > Anyway, I keep looking for more tools, and have an extra disk drive for another OS if anyone has any good suggestions?
> >
> > Right now I'm in Ubuntu, listening to the coreboot & flashrom freenode IRC channels. Quite a lot goes on there if you catch it right. Some real sharp guys.
> >
> > Clay
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[Mike Banon]

Although not exactly on topic, this patch [1] contains a list of
Floppy-based OS that could be run by SeaBIOS from a coreboot's CBFS.
Even a PicoBSD is possible, if you have the skills to build it (quite
tricky to be honest).

https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/33509

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:48 PM Clay Daniels  wrote:
> I am a big FreeBSD fan, and also run NetBSD on an older machine. Haven't used much Linux lately but installed Ubuntu to get a lspci for flashrom use. Ubuntu is fine, but does not have superiotool available as best I see. Looking back to FreeBSD I found superiotool just where I expected, as a port to be compiled under sysutils. Works fine, but still never finds my hidden bios I will call "SPI1" for lack of a better name.
>
> Anyway, I keep looking for more tools, and have an extra disk drive for another OS if anyone has any good suggestions?
>
> Right now I'm in Ubuntu, listening to the coreboot & flashrom freenode IRC channels. Quite a lot goes on there if you catch it right. Some real sharp guys.
>
> Clay
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