On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:58:19 -0400 Bryan Moore moore.bryan@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just starting to consider flashing my EeePC 1005HA's BIOS on Ubuntu Oneiric, so I installed flashrom and ran it, but can't make heads-or-tails of the output; I also can't find any sensible information in the FAQ or anywhere else on the web. Help?
flashrom output:
Found chipset "Intel ICH7M", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH. No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically.
hello bryan!
well the message "No EEPROM/flash device found." is the most important thing there. flashrom can not detect any flash chip (which holds the bios/firmware code). there can be multiple reasons for that, but all the details do not really matter. it boils down to the fact, that laptops are harder to support in flashrom than desktop boards. you can read about a few of the details here: http://flashrom.org/Laptops
we recommend to not try to update the bios of laptops, but use the vendor tools instead.