Re: [flashrom] join IRC

[Владимир Амельянович]

I made 3)
3) verify image - flashrom -p
internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto
-v boxpc899_0.rom

And result is VERIFIED.

2018-08-14 10:46 GMT+03:00 Владимир Амельянович <
[e-mail]>:
> Hello,
> save image - flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto
>
> -r boxpc899_0.rom
> 2) write image - flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto
> -w boxpc899_0.rom -V -o /lib/live/mount/medium/
>
> I have tried to write saved image finally. And got the following message:
>
> FAILED!
> Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
> Reading current flash chip contents... Reading 8388608 bytes starting at
> 0x000000.
> done.
> Apparently at least some data has changed.
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail [e-mail] with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!
>
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
> Restoring MMIO space at 0x7fb5896f08a0
> Restoring PCI config space for 00:1f:0 reg 0xdc
>
> -V output attached.
>
> What should i do next?  PC is power on.
>
> 2018-08-09 23:16 GMT+03:00 Владимир Амельянович <
> [e-mail]>:
> > Hello Nico,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your information.
> >
> > Does the image of SPI chip  which i get with -r key contain BIOS firmware
> > or BIOS settings or both?
> > My goal is to create  BIOS master image which i can write to 10,20,100
> > devices with same hardware.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vladimir
> >
> > 2018-08-09 22:11 GMT+03:00 Nico Huber :
> > > Hi Владимир,
> > >
> > > On 08.08.2018 10:07, Владимир Амельянович wrote:
> > > > flashrom -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop  didn't change
> > > > anything
> > >
> > > yes, because your BIOS claims that it's a laptop: `DMI string
> > > chassis-type: "Notebook"`.
> > >
> > > flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick show more info. Logs
> > > > with
> > > > different V number are attached.
> > > > Please could you please tell me if i can use flashrom in my case?
> > >
> > > You already did. If you let it probe with the above force option,
> > > it can already harm some laptops. But in your case (SPI chip directly
> > > attached) it's safe. You can go ahead (if you have a valid image to
> > > flash). In either case of success of failure, please always keep
> > > logs (best use the -o option) and report back.
> > >
> > > Please note that your message got filtered from the mailing list (there
> > > is a 256KiB limit for the mail size). So I'll attach your least verbose
> > > log for reference.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Nico