[coreboot] Re H8DME-2

[Daniel J. Celta]

Anders,
Thanks you,
I can see how to flash as long as I can boot the machine, otherwise I am in
trouble.  I wiould have no means to get to that chip and flash it back with
the original BIOS........ :(

Is there a way to test if the LinuxBIOS would work, without locking myself
out....... ????

Has anyone done this on this board?????

Thanks



On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Anders Jenbo <anders at jenbo.dk> wrote:

> You can flash the original image in the same way as you are going to do
> with the coreboot image. flashrom -w imagename.rom
>
> But if you board fails to boot then you will need to have access to some
> thing else that can flash that chip, one option is another motherboard
> that uses the same type of chip, or a rom flasher for the type of chip
> you have. This requires that the chip is socketed, so that you can
> remove it from the board as you write back the old image.
>
> Another option is to use what is known as a tophat, it will allow you to
> install a second flash rom on top of the once that is soldered on to the
> board (this only works with plcc32 chips as fare as i know).
>
> -Anders
>
> man, 05 07 2010 kl. 20:53 -0500, skrev Daniel J. Celta:
> > Ok I was able to determine the ROM chip of the server.....  Thank you
> > very much...
> >
> > Now, I did save the original BIOS information using "flashrom -r
> > <filename>"
> >
> > But, not sure I know how to rebuild back the BIOS from this file in
> > case needed.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions????
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, anders at jenbo.dk <anders at jenbo.dk>
> > wrote:
> >         Run flashrom with no parameters and it should tell you what
> >         Rom chip you have.
> >
> >         Before you pull the trigger you should make sure that you have
> >         a way to recover the original BIOS (with out the use of the
> >         computer you are doing this to).
> >
> >         Mvh Anders
> >
> >         ----- Reply message -----
> >         Fra: "Daniel J. Celta" <dcelta at gmail.com>
> >         Dato: man., jul. 5, 2010 23:02
> >         Emne: [coreboot] H8DME-2
> >         Til: <coreboot at coreboot.org>
> >
> >
> >         Has anyone updated this Supermicro server Board BIOS for the
> >         H8DME-2......
> >
> >         I have installed FC10, (i was able to complete this
> >         installation by turning of the RAID configuration in the
> >         BIOS), and now I am having trouble when trying to upgrade the
> >         Operating system to FC13.
> >
> >
> >         I suspect, if I update the BIOS, I currently have the version
> >         of the BIOS that came pre-installed with the server, I may be
> >         able to upgrade to FC13.
> >
> >         One thing I like to mention, when running "make menuconfig" I
> >         was not sure of the ROM Chip size, and used the largest
> >         available setting 4MB.
> >
> >         - How can I check the proper setting for this parameter????
> >
> >
> >
> >         So now, I have created the coreboot.rom, and think I am ready
> >         to run "flashrom".......
> >
> >         - Is there anything else I need to check before I pull the
> >         trigger???
> >
> >         - Has anyone had any problems I should be aware of????
> >
> >
> >         Thanks
> >
> >         Daniel
> >
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> >
>
>
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