FAILED: PC Engines apu1c4

[Sven Dreyer]

Hi guys,

I just bought an PC Engines APU1C4 board, which the manufacturer says
can be updated using flashrom. But in my case, it didn't seem to work.
This is what happended:

<SNIP>
root@irmabox:~# flashrom -w apu140405.rom
flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1546 on Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffdf000.
Found chipset "AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0". Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L1605" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address
0xffe00000.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0x4c,
Read=0xcc, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x001fffff: 0xe62f
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail [e-mail] with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
root@irmabox:~#
</SNIP>

Of course, I did NOT power off or reboot the board. The bios file I
tried to flash is an original bios from the manufacturer's site.

Thanks for any hint.

Best regards,
Sven

[Sven Dreyer]

Just ignore my email. Backporting the latest flashrom version from 
Debian testing and running the backported version helped, so my problem 
is solved. :-)

Thanks anyway!
Sven

Am 14.06.2014 00:15, schrieb Sven Dreyer:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just bought an PC Engines APU1C4 board, which the manufacturer says
> can be updated using flashrom. But in my case, it didn't seem to work.
> This is what happended:
>
> <SNIP>
> root@irmabox:~# flashrom -w apu140405.rom
> flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1546 on Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> coreboot table found at 0xdffdf000.
> Found chipset "AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0". Enabling flash write... OK.
> Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L1605" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address
> 0xffe00000.
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
> Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0x4c,
> Read=0xcc, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x001fffff: 0xe62f
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail [e-mail] with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!
>
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
> root@irmabox:~#
>
> </SNIP>
>
> Of course, I did NOT power off or reboot the board. The bios file I
> tried to flash is an original bios from the manufacturer's site.
>
> Thanks for any hint.
>
> Best regards,
> Sven