[coreboot] Free (possibly recoverable?) Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H

[Qing Pei Wang]

which jumper slipped?
by the way, which method did you use to confirm that"it tries to rewrite the
main bios"?

Best wishes
Wang Qing Pei
Phone: 86+18930528086


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Benjamin Cook <mail at benjamincook.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I recently made my first attempt at installing coreboot. I happened to mess
> up. While trying to jump across the appropriate pins to engage DualBIOS
> recovery, my jumper slipped and I shorted out. The mainboard is not
> completely broken. It succeeds at progressing to the point where the backup
> BIOS engages and tries to rewrite the main BIOS, but the system reboots
> during the rewrite.
>
> I've been speaking with mrnuke on the IRC channel and he mentioned two
> things: 1) There might be some clever strategy to recover the board, and 2)
> even if I'm not interested in trying that, someone in the community might
> be.
>
> I am open to either outcome, though I don't have a lot of time to spend on
> option 1. I am willing to ship at my own expense if someone thinks that they
> can use this board to further the project.
>
> --Ben Cook, aka Canar on IRC.
>
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