[flashrom] disaster

[Joseph Smith]

On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.05.2010, 22:57 +0100 schrieb Julio Barrios:
>> I guess I have just ruined my computer. I was trying flashrom under
>> Ubuntu 10.04. All seemed to have gone well. I turned off my PC,
>> but...well, you surely know the rest of the story. I cannot find any
>> way of getting it to start. Any ideas that may help me will be very
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> By the way, my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
> For those not following the IRC channel: Julio played around with
> flashrom and erased without really knowing what he was doing. So the PC
> does not start because there is no BIOS anymore in that computer. The
> flashchip is soldered, making replacement harder.
>
> IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I
> think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only
> connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip on
> top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower
> one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still has
> the link?

http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org