Hi Fraser,
On 10.11.2009 05:45, Fraser Hanson wrote:
I flashed my bios with flashrom tonight and got the scary warning message saying "erase failed" and "do not reboot".
I haven't rebooted.
As far as I can tell from using flashrom itself, everything is actually fine.
We're working on detecting the special case of an erase operation which didn't do anything so that we can write a less scary error message.
The erase appears to have failed at physical address 0, which I would guess means that nothing actually happened.
Sometimes erase still happens even if it fails at address 0.
I had taken a dump of the original bios before starting, and "flashrom -v" now verifies that it is identical.
Furthermore, a new dump of the bios matches the original dump from before I tried to write the bios.
Looks good.
My board is an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum.
Output from my dump attempt and subsequent messing around follows.
Do I have your blessing to reboot my machine?
Yes, you do.
We'd like to add support for writing on your board. We already support the MSI K8N Neo3, so there's a good chance your board can be supported easily.
Could you please download latest flashrom from svn, then run (as root) lspci -nnvvvxxx superiotool -dV flashrom -V and attach the output to your reply mail (reply to all)?
Besides that, we need to know if this is an Award/AMI/Phoenix BIOS and where a BIOS update can be downloaded (direct link would be appreciated, please don't attach the BIOS image).
Regards, Carl-Daniel