[flashrom] Question about using flash programmer for Dell BIOS

Pete Batard pete at akeo.ie
Thu Dec 8 19:13:00 CET 2011


On 2011.12.08 16:36, Delyan Zhekov wrote:
> I also found a tool converting .hdr to .bin

What tool did you use?

I remember looking for something like that some time ago, when I had to 
flash a GX BIOS from an HDR, but I wasn't able to locate one then.

In the end, I had to fallback to using dellBiosUpdate, from smbios-utils 
on Linux, instead of flashrom :(

> but the .bin file is more than 5MB
> in size. I am totally lost. Could you give me a direction what file
> should I use with the flash programmer. Thank you.

I'm hoping someone else will be able to give directions on how to be 
able to use flashrom when provided with a Dell HDR file.

In case they don't, you should still be able to flash an HDR using 
Ubuntu (eg. from a live CD) by doing something like this:

o apt-get install smbios-utils firmware-addon-dell
o retreive your HDR from network or USB
o dellBiosUpdate --hdr <your_firmware.hdr>

NB: you may have to issue an apt-get-update first and tweak the settings 
so that the Ubuntu repositories you fetch from include "Universe".

Additional options for dellBiosUpdate are also provided here [1].

Again, if there's any possibility to use flashrom, you should go for it, 
as I remember the dellBiosUpdate seemed very dumb and didn't even 
provide any kind of progress indication.

Regards,

/Pete

[1] http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/dellBiosUpdate.html




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