Re: [flashrom] Update of Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP motherboard firmware switch

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:57:26 -0600
Donovan Lavinder  wrote:
> After a day of struggling with bricked firmwares.... I finally ditched
> FreeDOS. I went with SystemRescueCd distro and burnt coreboot precompiled
> firmware under the folder /gigabyte_ma78gm/ and the firmware WORKED! But now
> I am stuck with funny firmware quirks (Windows XP crashing when booting
> halfway, almost to the point the video card driver is loaded, right after
> "GIVEIO.SYS" driver is being loaded), even though it loaded Linux CD fine. I
> guess I should try and ditch PS/2 mouse as it may probably be the cause of
> strange behavior - I will be using USB mouse / keyboard as well. I am happy
> with this firmware otherwise. And, the backup BIOS didn't even try to
> intercept the Linux kernel in the firmware from loading. Thankfully. I will
> eventually decide to recompile or "submit" the additional payloads such as
> EFI and memtest86+ as those software will be needed in the future, after I
> learn more of its capabilities.
>
> And, thanks for such a wonderful firmware! That thing's so fast!

congratulations :)
this mail probably should have been sent to [e-mail]
though (too).
btw could you provide a log of a successful flashrom write please?

Update of Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP motherboard firmware switch

[Donovan Lavinder]

That's strange. I have tried rewriting the firmware so I COULD provide you
the text file... It froze after couple complaints of 4-byte RDID not found
(it just ignored that before), and I tried just "flashrom", same thing. Now
that's a can of worm. It was 100% successful - verified and signed. Now I am
somewhat confused. I may have to wait for a while (thankfully I still have a
Windows laptop so I could write up the report on progresses of the firmware
ROM.)

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Stefan Tauner <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:57:26 -0600
> Donovan Lavinder  wrote:
> > After a day of struggling with bricked firmwares.... I finally ditched
> > FreeDOS. I went with SystemRescueCd distro and burnt coreboot precompiled
> > firmware under the folder /gigabyte_ma78gm/ and the firmware WORKED! But
>
> now
> > I am stuck with funny firmware quirks (Windows XP crashing when booting
> > halfway, almost to the point the video card driver is loaded, right after
> > "GIVEIO.SYS" driver is being loaded), even though it loaded Linux CD
>
> fine. I
> > guess I should try and ditch PS/2 mouse as it may probably be the cause
>
> of
> > strange behavior - I will be using USB mouse / keyboard as well. I am
>
> happy
> > with this firmware otherwise. And, the backup BIOS didn't even try to
> > intercept the Linux kernel in the firmware from loading. Thankfully. I
>
> will
> > eventually decide to recompile or "submit" the additional payloads such
>
> as
> > EFI and memtest86+ as those software will be needed in the future, after
>
> I
> > learn more of its capabilities.
> >
> > And, thanks for such a wonderful firmware! That thing's so fast!
>
> congratulations :)
> this mail probably should have been sent to [e-mail]
> though (too).
> btw could you provide a log of a successful flashrom write please?