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[Владимир Амельянович]

I made 3)
3) verify image - flashrom -p
internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto
-v boxpc899_0.rom

And result is VERIFIED.

2018-08-14 10:46 GMT+03:00 Владимир Амельянович <
amelyanovich.vladimir at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> 1) save image - flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto
> -r boxpc899_0.rom
> 2) write image - flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick,ich_spi_mode=auto
> -w boxpc899_0.rom -V -o /lib/live/mount/medium/
>
> I have tried to write saved image finally. And got the following message:
>
> FAILED!
> Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
> Reading current flash chip contents... Reading 8388608 bytes starting at
> 0x000000.
> done.
> Apparently at least some data has changed.
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail flashrom at flashrom.org with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
> Restoring MMIO space at 0x7fb5896f08a0
> Restoring PCI config space for 00:1f:0 reg 0xdc
>
> -V output attached.
>
> What should i do next?  PC is power on.
>
>
> 2018-08-09 23:16 GMT+03:00 Владимир Амельянович <
> amelyanovich.vladimir at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello Nico,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your information.
>>
>> Does the image of SPI chip  which i get with -r key contain BIOS firmware
>> or BIOS settings or both?
>> My goal is to create  BIOS master image which i can write to 10,20,100
>> devices with same hardware.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vladimir
>>
>>
>> 2018-08-09 22:11 GMT+03:00 Nico Huber <nico.h at gmx.de>:
>>
>>> Hi Владимир,
>>>
>>> On 08.08.2018 10:07, Владимир Амельянович wrote:
>>>
>>>> flashrom -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop  didn't change
>>>> anything
>>>>
>>>
>>> yes, because your BIOS claims that it's a laptop: `DMI string
>>> chassis-type: "Notebook"`.
>>>
>>> flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick show more info. Logs
>>>> with
>>>> different V number are attached.
>>>> Please could you please tell me if i can use flashrom in my case?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You already did. If you let it probe with the above force option,
>>> it can already harm some laptops. But in your case (SPI chip directly
>>> attached) it's safe. You can go ahead (if you have a valid image to
>>> flash). In either case of success of failure, please always keep
>>> logs (best use the -o option) and report back.
>>>
>>> Please note that your message got filtered from the mailing list (there
>>> is a 256KiB limit for the mail size). So I'll attach your least verbose
>>> log for reference.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nico
>>>
>>
>>
>
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