[coreboot] flashrom claims T60 is unsupported

[Richard Simpson]

Carl-Daniel,

Thanks.  Despite the scary nature of the command and my lack of actual
desire for a brick, that seems to have worked to get the new bios in.
Sadly the screen is still black.  I have created a separate thread to
ask about that rather different problem.

Richard Simpson

On 27/06/15 19:26, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 27.06.2015 15:20, Richard Simpson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have had partial success with flashing my T60.  After the first flash
>> the laptop re-booted OK, but the screen is completely black.  Fiddling
>> with the backlight buttons doesn't have any effect.  Fortunately, I can
>> connect via ssh so I am not locked out.
>>
>> I believe that my mistake was to put my ATI VGA bios into coreboot
>> rather than SeaBIOS.  I have now corrected this but I can't flash the
>> updated version.  For the first flash I used the following command:
>>
>> ./flashrom/i686/flashrom_lenovobios_sst -p internal -w coreboot.rom
>>
>> I got loads of errors as mentioned in the instructions, but it seemed to
>> work.  Since I now want to do another flash I have followed the
>> instructions and used this simpler command:
>>
>> ./flashrom/i686/flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> flashrom v0.9.8-unknown on Linux 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
>> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>>
>> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
>> coreboot table found at 0xbfea0000.
>> ========================================================================
>> WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop.
>> Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we
>> recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller
>> (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.
>> See the manpage and http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
>>
>> If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
>> and write may brick your laptop.
>> Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
>> failure and sudden poweroff.
>> You have been warned.
>> ========================================================================
>> Aborting.
>> Error: Programmer initialization failed.
>>
>> I have tried flashrom, flashrom_lenovobios_sst and
>> flashrom_lenovobios_macronix and get the same error every time.  I have
>> also tried re-flashing the current working but blank screen bios and
>> that won't go in either.
>>
>> Suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w coreboot.rom
> 
> That should work.
> 
> Then take care of bucts again.
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
>