Someone gave me an old system before Christmas. It's a nice box for something from the turn of the millennium, and in good order. The case particularly is nice, so I decided replace my network/file server with it. Rather than replacing the board I tried to use it as is, but the BIOS balks at the idea of booting from a 500GB hard-drive. I know there are other ways I can boot and mount it, but have always wanted to try coreboot and though this would be a neat project. The board is a Chaintech, unfortunately I haven't been able to find a model number. It looks very similar to the Asus P2B: Intel® 440BX - Intel® 82371BX - Winbond™ W83977TF(visually verified).
I currently have LFS installed. flashrom tells me "No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically." I'm a bit sad about that.
Here are links to the flashrom, lspci, and superiotool outputs that I was told to post in IRC, and will be following up any leads in the chat room as well as here. Sorry if I should really be attaching them to the email instead. lspci -nnvvvxxx http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=315 flashrom -v http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=316 superiotool -deV http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=317
Thanks for your time.
Just wanted to mention 'twice11' on IRC sorted it out for me. :) I made a backup of the bios, hotswapped another chip I got off a friend, and successfully flashed the backup and rebooted the system.
Now on to the real fun...
On 28 January 2011 20:21, Craig Magee psybertao@gmail.com wrote:
Someone gave me an old system before Christmas. It's a nice box for something from the turn of the millennium, and in good order. The case particularly is nice, so I decided replace my network/file server with it. Rather than replacing the board I tried to use it as is, but the BIOS balks at the idea of booting from a 500GB hard-drive. I know there are other ways I can boot and mount it, but have always wanted to try coreboot and though this would be a neat project. The board is a Chaintech, unfortunately I haven't been able to find a model number. It looks very similar to the Asus P2B: Intel® 440BX - Intel® 82371BX - Winbond™ W83977TF(visually verified).
I currently have LFS installed. flashrom tells me "No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically." I'm a bit sad about that.
Here are links to the flashrom, lspci, and superiotool outputs that I was told to post in IRC, and will be following up any leads in the chat room as well as here. Sorry if I should really be attaching them to the email instead. lspci -nnvvvxxx http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=315 flashrom -v http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=316 superiotool -deV http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=317
Thanks for your time.
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Craig Magee