[coreboot] Original bios as payload

Ivan Barrera A. info at Ivn.cl
Wed Jul 29 16:37:12 CEST 2009


Peter Stuge escribió:
> Ivan Barrera A. wrote:
>> The other option would be putting inside 2 flash chips, and an
>> external switch to enable one or the other. Im not sure if this is
>> possible using not so many wires...
> 
> This can certainly be a very doable hack. You will of course have to
> reboot a lot and that is fairly time consuming. At any rate I would
> also recommend a flash chip emulator.
> 
> But on with it; which flash chip is currently in use on the board?
> (The name reported by flashrom is fine.)

The System Reports a SST 49LF004A , while it is really a SST 49LF004B 
(4mbit / 512KB).
Flashrom was unable to write on it. So my tests were done using my 
external programmer. ( the netbook saved the day :) )





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