[flashrom] My BIOS is unsupported/untested

Bernd Blaauw bblaauw at home.nl
Thu Jul 28 22:09:26 CEST 2011


Op 28-7-2011 20:32, Amr H. El-Sharnoby schreef:
> By the way,
> After the upgrade the LAN stopped working.

Hi Amr,

you've posted a read log in both normal and verbose modes. Unfortunately 
not the write log, but all bits help.
Did you write a different BIOS to EEPROM? Or simply wrote "bios.old" to 
EEPROM? Did your network card/chip stop working directly (in Linux?) 
after writing this BIOS? Or after reboot?

I guess the network chip's hardware address (MAC-address) changed or was 
erased due to the firmware flashing, instead of being kept intact? I 
don't know if Flashrom can recognise and/or handle MAC-addresses in a 
safe way.


>     ./flashrom -r bios.old
>     flashrom v0.9.4-r1397 on Linux 2.6.39-3.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64

>     root at station3:~/flashrom# ./flashrom -V -r bios.old
>     flashrom v0.9.4-r1397 on Linux 2.6.39-3.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64
>     Reading flash... done.

>     Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f0a081a78a0
>     Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f0a081a789c
>     Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f0a081a7898
>     Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f0a081a7896
>     Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f0a081a7894




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