I’ve been working with a Supermicro X8DA3/DAI mother board running with RHEL ES 5.4 (2.6.30.9). I compiled the latest version of “flashrom 0.9.2) and was able to capture my current BIOS by running “flashrom –r X8DA3.BIOS”. After capturing the BIOS I reloaded it by issuing the following command “flashrom –w X8DA3.BIOS”. I was told that the write was successful, but saw the following errors:

Writing flash chip… Erasing flash before programming Erasing Flash Chip… spi_block_erase_20 failed during command execution at address 0x0

Spi_block_erase_52 failed during command execution at address 0x0

Since it stated that it was successfully, I simply reset the server and now it’s failing to boot?

Any help in understanding in what went wrong or if my motherboard is not fully support ( I did run the check initially to ensure the chipset was support).

Thanks,

John Johnson

Lockheed Martin

Manassas, VA