[flashrom] Re: Flashing bios onto ASUS X570

[awokd]

Mike Payne:
> I had recently had a bios update fail on my X-570 prime pro motherboard.
> I'm not the most well versed in linux, and I downloaded it via sudo apt-get
> install flashrom. It looks like this installed version 0.9.9. I'm not sure
> if this version is the one I should use with the bios chip, which I believe
> is a MX25U2564G. I also downloaded the 1.2 zip file, but how to build it
> with linux. Do you have any recommended steps I should follow or what I
> need to type into the terminal if version 0.9.9 doesn't work?

You can safely perform read operations with Flashrom without hurting
anything. Try 0.9.9 first and see if it works for that. It will warn you
if write operations are unsupported.