[flashrom] FAILED update new bios but OK to flash OLD bios - P5N-E SLI

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:30:41 +0200
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:38:45 +0200
> Joël Obrecht <joel.obrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Joshua,
> > I'm sorry I looked a bit around but I guess I need some more explanations
> > for using / installing that patch. May I have to replace the data in source
> > files ? Where ?
> > Anyway, I tried again with last svn, failed again, I joined the verbose
> > output.
> > Joël
> 
> hello joël!
> 
> i am not entirely sure how your building process works, but you
> basically need to apply joshua's patch on top of a current source
> snapshot before compiling it.
> 
> lets say you have the source in your current working directory.
> you can then fetch and apply the patch by:
> 
> wget http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/2125/raw/ -O p5ne.patch
> patch < p5ne.patch 
> 
> after that you have to recompile it. it should print something like
> "Disabling flash write protection for P5N-E" when run then.
> it is possible that it does not work yet. please dont reboot if
> flashrom tells you that and report back (you can get even faster
> reponses on IRC, if that's an issue btw).

hi again

i just wanted to ask, if you had time to test our patch for you and if
we can help you further.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner