That's strange. I have tried rewriting the firmware so I COULD provide you the text file... It froze after couple complaints of 4-byte RDID not found (it just ignored that before), and I tried just "flashrom", same thing. Now that's a can of worm. It was 100% successful - verified and signed. Now I am somewhat confused. I may have to wait for a while (thankfully I still have a Windows laptop so I could write up the report on progresses of the firmware ROM.)
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Stefan Tauner < stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:57:26 -0600 Donovan Lavinder drmario2007@gmail.com wrote:
After a day of struggling with bricked firmwares.... I finally ditched FreeDOS. I went with SystemRescueCd distro and burnt coreboot precompiled firmware under the folder /gigabyte_ma78gm/ and the firmware WORKED! But
now
I am stuck with funny firmware quirks (Windows XP crashing when booting halfway, almost to the point the video card driver is loaded, right after "GIVEIO.SYS" driver is being loaded), even though it loaded Linux CD
fine. I
guess I should try and ditch PS/2 mouse as it may probably be the cause
of
strange behavior - I will be using USB mouse / keyboard as well. I am
happy
with this firmware otherwise. And, the backup BIOS didn't even try to intercept the Linux kernel in the firmware from loading. Thankfully. I
will
eventually decide to recompile or "submit" the additional payloads such
as
EFI and memtest86+ as those software will be needed in the future, after
I
learn more of its capabilities.
And, thanks for such a wonderful firmware! That thing's so fast!
congratulations :) this mail probably should have been sent to coreboot@coreboot.org though (too). btw could you provide a log of a successful flashrom write please?
-- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner