at least with "nopat" on the kernel command line and accessible /dev/mem flashrom was able to flash this board successfully on a Gentoo hardened system. Probably it would have worked without all these safety measures, because flashrom was able to read and verify the existing bios before. Here is the output of flashrom -V:
flashrom v0.9.5.1-r1509 on Linux 3.2.9-hardened-r1 (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.9, GCC 4.5.3, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 754M loops per second, 10 myus = 11 us, 100 myus = 100 us, 1000 myus = 1001 us, 10000 myus = 10013 us, 4 myus = 5 us, OK. Initializing internal programmer DMI string system-manufacturer: "BIOSTAR Group" DMI string system-product-name: "N61PB-M2S" DMI string system-version: " " DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "BIOSTAR Group" DMI string baseboard-product-name: "N61PB-M2S" DMI string baseboard-version: " " DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop" Found ITE Super I/O, ID 0x8716 on port 0x2e Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP61" with PCI ID 10de:03e0. Enabling flash write... This chipset is not really supported yet. Guesswork... ISA/LPC bridge reg 0x8a contents: 0x40, bit 6 is 1, bit 5 is 0 Flash bus type is SPI SPI on this chipset is WIP. Please report any success or failure by mailing us the verbose output to flashrom@flashrom.org, thanks! Found SMBus device 10de:03eb at 00:01:1 MCP SPI BAR is at 0xfec80000 SPI control is 0x0002, req=0, gnt=0 Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to flashrom@flashrom.org with your board name: flashrom -V as the subject to help us finish support for your chipset. Thanks. OK. No IT87* serial flash segment enabled. The following protocols are supported: SPI. Probing for AMIC A25L05PT, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L05PU, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L10PT, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L10PU, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L20PT, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L20PU, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L40PT, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L40PU, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L80P, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L16PT, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L16PU, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L512, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L010, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L020, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L040, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L080, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L016, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25L032, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for AMIC A25LQ032, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF021, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF041A, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF081, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF081A, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF161, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF321, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF321A, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DF641(A), 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25DQ161, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25F512B, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25FS010, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT25FS040, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT26DF041, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT26DF081A, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT26DF161, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT26DF161A, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT26F004, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45CS1282, 16896 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB011D, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB021D, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB041D, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB081D, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB161D, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB321C, 4224 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB321D, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel AT45DB642D, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for EMST F25L008A, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B05, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B05T, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B10, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B10T, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B20, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B20T, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B40, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B40T, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B80, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B80T, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B16T, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B32, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B32T, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B64, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25B64T, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F05, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F10, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F20, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F40, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F80, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25F32, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25Q40, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25Q80(A), 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25Q16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25Q32(A/B), 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25Q64, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25Q128, 16384 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon EN25QH16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L512, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L1005, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L2005, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L4005, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L8005, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Chip status register is 00 Chip status register: Status Register Write Disable (SRWD) is not set Chip status register: Bit 6 is not set Chip status register: Bit 5 / Block Protect 3 (BP3) is not set Chip status register: Bit 4 / Block Protect 2 (BP2) is not set Chip status register: Bit 3 / Block Protect 1 (BP1) is not set Chip status register: Bit 2 / Block Protect 0 (BP0) is not set Chip status register: Write Enable Latch (WEL) is not set Chip status register: Write In Progress (WIP/BUSY) is not set Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L8005" (1024 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000. Probing for Macronix MX25L1605, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L1635D, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L1635E, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L3205, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L3235D, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L6405, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix MX25L12805, 16384 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Numonyx M25PE10, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Numonyx M25PE20, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Numonyx M25PE40, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Numonyx M25PE80, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Numonyx M25PE16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC Pm25LV010, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC Pm25LV016B, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC Pm25LV020, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC Pm25LV040, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC Pm25LV080B, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC Pm25LV512, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Sanyo LF25FW203A, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Spansion S25FL004A, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Spansion S25FL008A, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Spansion S25FL016A, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Spansion S25FL032A, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Spansion S25FL064A, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for SST SST25LF040A, 512 kB: probe_spi_res2: id1 0x13, id2 0x13 Probing for SST SST25LF080A, 1024 kB: probe_spi_res2: id1 0x13, id2 0x13 Probing for SST SST25VF010, 128 kB: probe_spi_rems: id1 0xc2, id2 0x13 Probing for SST SST25VF016B, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for SST SST25VF032B, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for SST SST25VF064C, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for SST SST25VF040, 512 kB: probe_spi_rems: id1 0xc2, id2 0x13 Probing for SST SST25VF040B, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for SST SST25VF040B.REMS, 512 kB: probe_spi_rems: id1 0xc2, id2 0x13 Probing for SST SST25VF080B, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P05-A, 64 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P05, 64 kB: Ignoring RES in favour of RDID. Probing for ST M25P10-A, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P10, 128 kB: Ignoring RES in favour of RDID. Probing for ST M25P20, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P40, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P40-old, 512 kB: Ignoring RES in favour of RDID. Probing for ST M25P80, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P32, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P64, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25P128, 16384 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25PX16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25PX32, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST M25PX64, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25Q80, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25Q16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25Q32, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25Q64, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25Q128, 16384 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X10, 128 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X20, 256 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X40, 512 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X80, 1024 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X32, 4096 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Winbond W25X64, 8192 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Unknown SFDP-capable chip, 0 kB: No SFDP signature found. Probing for AMIC unknown AMIC SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Atmel unknown Atmel SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Eon unknown Eon SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Macronix unknown Macronix SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for PMC unknown PMC SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for SST unknown SST SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for ST unknown ST SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Sanyo unknown Sanyo SPI chip, 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Generic unknown SPI chip (RDID), 0 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xc2, id2 0x2014 Probing for Generic unknown SPI chip (REMS), 0 kB: probe_spi_rems: id1 0xc2, id2 0x13 Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L8005" (1024 kB, SPI). No operations were specified.