[flashrom] Erase faild

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Thu May 12 19:52:39 CEST 2011


* Marco Runge <Marco_Runge at raykiel.com> [110512 14:46]:
> I am a Software Engineer from Raytheon Ansch tz Germany and wanted to use
> flashrom to update the bios of our embedded bord form emerson. Unfortuneately
> s.th. must have gone wrong. First write of the bios was fine but after reboot I
> got a crisis report that the two flash banks are corrupt. I could boot from
> thumb drive anyway and wanted to write the backup copy but got the following
> error message:
> 
> Erase failed at 0x00000010! Expected=0xff, Read=0x5a, failed byte count from
> 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff: 0xd092.
> 
> We are using the following board: http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/en-US/
> Products/EmbeddedComputing/CompactPCI/Pages/EmbCompCPCI7203.aspx
> 
> Chipset: Intel Ibex Peak
> Found chipset: Atmel AT25DF641 8192Kb SPI at 0xff800000
> 
> I hope you can help

Please post the full log (possibly with --verbose)

Also, does the image in flash match what you previously read from the
chip? In that case it's most likely that the flash is write protected

Stefan





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