[LinuxBIOS] about programming BIOS Savior

Ning (Michael) Qu quning at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 21:30:09 CEST 2007


And I check the new content after programming Savior. Only the last
page are programmed. The total is 8 pages (512K), and only the content
from 0x70000 is correctly programmed. What's the problem? Is there
something wrong with flashrom?

On 4/24/07, Ning (Michael) Qu <quning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> I have a problem on programming BIOS Savior. I just got a BIOS Savior
> PMC4, and the flash embedded in it is Pm49FL004. My motherboard is
> DK8-HTX and I have read the original BIOS by flashrom into a file. I
> want to program it into BIOS Savior but the verification process
> always failed (more than 10 times). I search on our forum and find
> that it maybe a little difficult to program BIOS Savior succefully. Is
> it true? Is it because of the support of Pm49FL004 flash by flashrom?
> And is there anything else I can do for it? Thanks very much!
>
> The error information about flashrom is as following:
>
> when programming
> [ning at localhost linuxbios]$ sudo flashrom -c Pm49FL004 -V -w orig.rom
> Calibrating delay loop... Setting up microsecond timing loop
> 14M loops per second
> ok
> No LinuxBIOS table found.
> Enabling flash write on AMD8111...OK
> Trying Pm49FL004, 512 KB
> probe_jedec: id1 0x9d, id2 0x6e
> Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000
> Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB)
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
>
> when verifying
> [ning at localhost linuxbios]$ sudo flashrom -c Pm49FL004 --force -v orig.rom
> Calibrating delay loop... ok
> No LinuxBIOS table found.
> Enabling flash write on AMD8111...OK
> Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000
> Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB)
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Verifying flash - FAILED
>




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