[flashrom] Help: trouble when flashing rom

[Idwer Vollering]

Please use "reply to all" in the future. Thanks.

2011/4/19 Cyrille Bartholomée <cyrille at bartholomee.com>
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> Dear Idwer,
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> First of all thank you for responding so fast and trying to help me!

First of all: DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF YOUR LAPTOP.

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> 1. Downloaded and built latest flashrom. Problem remains exactly the same as with previous version.

That is good and not so good.

> 2. I am using an Asus laptop model M6Ne, the exact type of board I don't know.

flashrom doesn't really support laptops. However, adding support *is*
possible but requires a lot of work.

http://flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_laptops.2Fnotebooks
http://flashrom.org/Laptops

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> 3. I have run the commands you mentioned, the results are attached to this mail.

This information is not sane, it should say (and we detect it as such)
"Laptop" or "Notebook":
DMI string chassis-type: "<OUT OF SPEC>"

Don't worry, this is not your fault.

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> If there is more information you need, please let me know.

DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF YOUR LAPTOP.

I have uploaded the content of the files you have attached.

flashrom -V: http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=493
lspci -nnvvvxxx: http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=494
superiotool -deV: http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=495

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> Again, thanks for your help.
>
> Kind regards,
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> Cyrille Bartholomée | De Damhouderestraat 20 | 2018 Antwerpen
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> t. 0032 3 298 4244 | m. 0032 499 711 018 | e. cyrille at bartholomee.com
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> Op dinsdag 19 april 2011 00:21:28 schreef u:
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> > 2011/4/18 Cyrille Bartholomée <cyrille at bartholomee.com>:
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> > > Dear,
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> > >
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> > > I'm facing this problem when flashing my rom:
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> > >
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> > > flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), built with libpci
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> > > 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.4, little endian
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> > >
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> > > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
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> > >
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> > > Calibrating delay loop... delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
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> > >
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> > > No coreboot table found.
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> > >
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> > > Found chipset "Intel ICH4-M", enabling flash write... OK.
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> > >
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> > > This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
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> > >
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> > > Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
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> > >
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> > > Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
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> > >
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> > > Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000008!
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> > > Expected=0xff, Read=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff:
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> > > 0xfc5
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> > >
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> > > ERASE FAILED!
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> > >
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> > > ERASE FAILED at 0x00000008! Expected=0xff, Read=0x00, failed byte count from
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> > > 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xfadb
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> > >
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> > > ERASE FAILED!
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> > >
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> > > FAILED!
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> > >
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> > > ERASE FAILED!
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> > >
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> > > FAILED!
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> > >
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> > > Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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> > >
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> > > Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
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> > >
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> > > mail flashrom at flashrom.org!
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> >
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> > Can you:
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> > - try a newer release (or build the latest developemt code yourself
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> > http://www.flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source)
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> > - mention the exact name of your board (including revision, if there
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> > are multiple revisions)
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> > - attach the output of 'flashrom -V', 'lspci -nnvvvxxx', 'superiotool
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> > -deV' (run all commands as root)
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> >
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> >
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> > Thanks in advance,
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> > Idwer
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> >
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> > >
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> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >
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> > > DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
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> > >
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> > > Regards,
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> > >
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> > > Cyrille Bartholomée | De Damhouderestraat 20 | 2018 Antwerpen
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> > >
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> > > t. 0032 3 298 4244 | m. 0032 499 711 018 | e. cyrille at bartholomee.com
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> > >
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