Suggested mechanism of burning a LinuxBIOS on FLASH ROMS

Jeremy Jackson jerj at coplanar.net
Thu Apr 10 11:31:01 CEST 2003


There is work being done to allow the EEPROM socket of certain network
cards to be used as a flash programmer.  Also see the devbios project.

Regards,

Jeremy

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:52, Deepak Kotian wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>     This may be a very basic simple question, but I do not know a very
> good answer/solution
>     to do this.
>  
>     If I want to burn LinuxBIOS, I can use the burn_mtd script , it
> may write it
>     successfully as well, but if linuxbios is not correctly built. I
> cannot get the 
>     any O.S started on this machine, which means I would need to
> replace the
>     BIOS FLASH ROM with a one with proper BIOS and bring up the
> machine.
>     Is there a way I can re-program the old BIOS on to the corrupted
> FLASH ROMS.
>     Please note,I do not have a PLC or any kind of FLASH programmer
> with me. Can
>     I do without it.
>     
>     If there are any suggestions, please let me know.
>  
> Thanks and Regards
> Deepak
>  
>     
>     




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