Hi folks,
I wanted to reflash the just-before-backupped BIOS with self-compiled Flashform 0.9.3 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) 32-Bit, PAE-Kernel 2.6.31-22.
This is the message I got:
$ sudo flashrom -w abit_093.bin
flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on Linux 2.6.31-22-generic-pae (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.1, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. WARNING: Your mainboard is abit NF-M2 nView, but the mainboard-specific code has not been tested, and thus will not not be executed by default. Depending on your hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing can fail without running the board specific code.
Please see the man page (section PROGRAMMER SPECIFIC INFO, subsection "internal programmer") for details. Found chip "PMC Pm49FL004" (512 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x70f ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x70f ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x5973f ERASE FAILED! FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom@flashrom.org with FAILED: your board name in the subject line! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
I first wanted simply to write the saved BIOS again, to be sure, everything works fine before flashing the new version of the bios. To be honest: I could'nt figure out the meaning concerning the "mainboard-specific code", that's why I tried nevertheless.
Thanks for any hints on how to continue, Guntram