Hello,

1) save image - flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto -r boxpc899_0.rom

2) write image - flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto -w boxpc899_0.rom -V -o /lib/live/mount/medium/

I have tried to write saved image finally. And got the following message:

FAILED!
Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
Reading current flash chip contents... Reading 8388608 bytes starting at 0x000000.
done.
Apparently at least some data has changed.
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail flashrom@flashrom.org with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
Restoring MMIO space at 0x7fb5896f08a0
Restoring PCI config space for 00:1f:0 reg 0xdc

-V output attached.

What should i do next?  PC is power on.

2018-08-09 23:16 GMT+03:00 Владимир Амельянович <amelyanovich.vladimir@gmail.com>:

Hello Nico,

Thank you very much for your information.

Does the image of SPI chip  which i get with -r key contain BIOS firmware or BIOS settings or both?

My goal is to create  BIOS master image which i can write to 10,20,100 devices with same hardware.

Regards,

Vladimir

2018-08-09 22:11 GMT+03:00 Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>:

Hi Владимир,

On 08.08.2018 10:07, Владимир Амельянович wrote:

flashrom -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop  didn't change anything

yes, because your BIOS claims that it's a laptop: `DMI string
chassis-type: "Notebook"`.

flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick show more info. Logs with
different V number are attached.
Please could you please tell me if i can use flashrom in my case?

You already did. If you let it probe with the above force option,
it can already harm some laptops. But in your case (SPI chip directly
attached) it's safe. You can go ahead (if you have a valid image to
flash). In either case of success of failure, please always keep
logs (best use the -o option) and report back.

Please note that your message got filtered from the mailing list (there
is a 256KiB limit for the mail size). So I'll attach your least verbose
log for reference.

Regards,
Nico