[coreboot] elite C7VCM?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Mon May 12 02:06:42 CEST 2008


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Thomas Vilhar wrote:
> The bios chip is identified correctly.
> Here I tried tor copy, verify and write the original bios.

Thanks for testing!


> Writing fails. 

This may be because the chip was not erased before writing?


> tt:/home/tom # flashrom -w /original.rom
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
> SST49LF040B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash part is SST49LF040B (512 KB).
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> ERASE FAILED!

Hm - this error message is not in the flashrom write code path?


Please check if erasing the flash chip (with -E) works. The most
reliable way is to erase, then read back into a file and run hexdump
on the file.


//Peter




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