Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010 schrieb Uwe Hermann:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:06:10AM +0200, Axel Bergerhoff wrote:
Just flashed the first one with flashrom, worked fine.
Thanks, we marked the S2915 as supported. If you get a chance to also test S2915-E please let us know.
Uwe.
All of our 2915-E boards that are still running older BIOS versions are attached to server boxes. As the BIOS settings are reset to defaults while flashing (no matter if flashrom or phlash16 is used) and the defaults prevent the OS from booting up, an immediate reboot and readjust is mandatory.
I'll be out of town for a couple of weeks now - I'll test when I'm back.
Axel
Back again. Successfully flashed one 2915-E some minutes ago.
<Description> * Environment ** board: Tyan Thunder n6650W (S2915A2NRF-E) ** flashrom: flashrom-0.9.2-r1096 ** new BIOS: 2915v401.ROM (from S2915-E_v401.zip)
* Procedure ** Reduce file size of 2915v401.ROM As somebody already mentioned some time ago ROMs for 2915 and 2915-E are bigger than 1 MB - but the rest is not needed. To avoid error messages from flashrom, the ROM file should be cut off. There are many ways to do, I used split: split -b 1m 2915v401.ROM This gives two files, xaa and xab, where xaa is the choosen one. ** Save the active ROM content to a file, e.g. ROM.sav flashrom -r ROM.sav ** Flash flashrom -w xaa Should return with "Verified" ** Reboot ** Readjust the BIOS settings! Many board manufacturers claim BIOS setup to be reset to some default but actually leave everything untouched. Here resetting _is_ done (no matter if flashrom or the DOS based tool from Tyan is used), disabling your RAID controller as a boot device, disabling IOMMU, setting system time some years to the past, .. </Description>
Thanks for doing a good job! Axel