Re: [flashrom] Problem with coreboot and flashrom

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 10-10-2011 17:57, Николай Пономарев schreef:
> I was flashed bios with coreboot and after that network card, usb,
> video card not working. flashrom not working too, it start flash bios
> and stop at probing chip. Can anybody help me?
> Mother board: http://www.gigabyte.ru/products/page/mb/ga-ma78gm-s2h_11

You're likely best off flashing back to vendor BIOS and/or replacing the 
BIOS flash chip (eeprom) by another one containing the motherboard 
manufacturer's BIOS.
Alternatively a 2nd machine might help in performing a so-called hotswap.

I've got no usage experience with CoreBoot (only reading their 
mailinglist archives), don't know if your board is supported at all (and 
if not, hopefully you've got a BIOS backup chip), and you're likely best 
off asking the Coreboot mailing list.

Flashrom can often write Coreboot firmware, but also motherboard vendor 
firmware (bios/uefi). That might be one of the reasons that it's not 
that related/integrated to the Coreboot project anymore as it once was.

Goodluck unbricking your BIOS. Some experimenting inside of QEMU might 
work, pity there's no ready-to-run 'coreboot-linux' harddisk image file 
(or virtual machine) available for download, to run directly under QEMU.

Spelling of coreboot (was: Problem with coreboot and flashrom)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Bernd,

please be warned of my nitpicking below. I am just pointing that out to
prevent further “misspellings” in the future.

Am Montag, den 10.10.2011, 19:30 +0200 schrieb Bernd Blaauw:

[…]
> I've got no usage experience with CoreBoot (only reading their 
> mailinglist archives), don't know if your board is supported at all (and 
> if not, hopefully you've got a BIOS backup chip), and you're likely best 
> off asking the Coreboot mailing list.
>
> Flashrom can often write Coreboot firmware, but also motherboard vendor 
> firmware (bios/uefi). That might be one of the reasons that it's not 
> that related/integrated to the Coreboot project anymore as it once was.

The official spelling is all lower case: coreboot. This is often hard
for non-English speaking people. (At least for Germans, since it is not
allowed in their language I think.) At least the camel Case/medial
capitals spelling [1] spell is incorrect.

[…]

Thanks,

Paul

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase