[LinuxBIOS] howto flash a self made bios with original flashtool (because flashrom doesn't work)

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Wed May 30 19:40:33 CEST 2007


Hi,

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:34:53PM +0200, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> I tried to flash my bios with flashrom, but it can not write to the
> chip, because it may be in a readonly mode.
> 
> Does anybody now a workaround ?
> 
> awdflash.exe (v8.63c) claims it is not an award bios.
> Is there a hidden switch to assure awdflash to write the image ?

Dunno, but you have multiple options:

 - Fix flashrom
 - Use another computer which is supported by flashrom to flash the image
 - Use Uniflash, see uniflash.org
 - Use a hardware programmer (not exactly cheap, though)

Option 1 is the best, of course.


Uwe.
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