[coreboot] corebootV2 Can support IEI lx-800 mainboard?

[Corey Osgood]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:38:59PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:34 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Please let me stress the importance of using a second flash chip if
> > >> you do not have access to a standalone flash chip programmer.
> > >
> > > I go even further: I recommend 3. One is a copy of factory bios.
> > >
> > > Because, every once in a while, I accidentally flash the factory bios
> > > with a broken coreboot.
> > >
> > > Having a "backup for the backup" is very useful.
> >
> > I can only second that, as it happened to me too.
>
> Aye. The 'third' backup goes on the shelf, where it will not be used until
> you have an emergency - i.e. until you accidentally overwrote both your
> coreboot chip and your factory chip.


Add one more to that list. Worst part is that my stock BIOS chip doesn't
write quite right, it took at least a few dozen attempts to get the stock
BIOS back on it. Something wrong with the timing, and looping flashrom until
it verified was easier then fixing the problem.

-Corey
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