Author: mkarcher Date: Fri Mar 12 07:41:39 2010 New Revision: 931 URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/931
Log: Tell users to probe/backup first
Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher flashrom@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net
Modified: trunk/flashrom.8
Modified: trunk/flashrom.8 ============================================================================== --- trunk/flashrom.8 Fri Mar 12 00:04:16 2010 (r930) +++ trunk/flashrom.8 Fri Mar 12 07:41:39 2010 (r931) @@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ .PP You can specify one of -E, -r, -w, -v or no operation. If no operation is specified, then all that happens -is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable. +is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable. It is +recommended that if you try flashrom the first time on a system, you run it +in probe only mode and check the output. Also you are advised to make a +backup of your current ROM contents with -r before you try to write a new +image. .TP .B "-r, --read <file>" Read flash ROM contents and save them into the given