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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