[LinuxBIOS] newbie: flashrom cannot find flash device

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Wolfgang Spraul <wspraul at q-ag.de> [060724 00:37]:
> 1) Is there a chance I can use flashrom to read/write my BIOS code. What 
> is missing? Can anybody point me in any direction from the flashrom -V 
> output below? Should I open the notebook to try to find any chip label?

:-( It looks like the bios of your machine also locks accesses to the
flash chip with some GPIO line. 

You might need to use the vendor supplied flash tool (or "invesitigate"
the bios image to see how the protection works)

 Stefan

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