Re: [flashrom] Write succes for Tyan Thunder K8WE s2895 with flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 and chip SSTFL49080A

[Michael Karcher]

Am Mittwoch, den 15.09.2010, 20:14 +0200 schrieb STEMMELIN, FREDERIC
(FREDERIC)** CTR **:
> NOT WORKING is writing from original Tyan BIOS image (Error: Image
> size doesn't match, 2895V106.wph,
> ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios/S2895_v106.zip)

This is normal for phoenix images (flashed by winphlash or phlash16),
because these images have code containing board and chip specific update
functions appended to the flash image. Taking only the first 1048576
bytes of that file using e.g. head or dd is known to generally work on
phoenix BIOSes

Regards,
  Michael Karcher