[coreboot] flashing problem on MSI-7260

malatesh kamatad malateshkamat at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 08:39:26 CEST 2008


Hi all ..

        In  AsRock  motherboard  the  flashing  works fine ..But in MSI-7260
flashing is not happening ,

        is there any idea? i followed these procedure...

        i downloaded the PM49LF004B bios content from the       website i,e
K8UVM8_1.70 .

[root at turtle22 ~]# flashrom -E
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
Erasing flash chip
Erasing page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000

[root at turtle22 ~]# flashrom -w K8UVM8_1.70
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Programming page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000

[root at turtle22 ~]# flashrom -v K8UVM8_1.70
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... FAILED!

[root at turtle22 ~]# flashrom -r after_write.bin
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
Reading Flash...done
[root at turtle22 ~]# diff -us after_write.bin K8UVM8_1.70
Binary files after_write.bin and K8UVM8_1.70 differ

after verification this shows like that its  failed ....but i tried by using
another option by mentioning the  vendor and name of the board as below
[root at turtle22 ~]# flashrom -w -m MSI:MS-7260 K8UVM8_1.70
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
NOT FOUND MSI:MS-7260
Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Programming page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000

[root at turtle22 ~]#  flashrom -v -m MSI:MS-7260 K8UVM8_1.70
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
NOT FOUND MSI:MS-7260
Pm49FL004 found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB).
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... FAILED!

  is any idea to do this????  and i have attached the file i,e
K8UVM8_1.70 with this mail ..

            please guide me.

with regads,
Malatesh kamatad
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