[flashrom] Scary error message

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:45:45PM -0800, Fraser Hanson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I flashed my bios with flashrom tonight and got the scary warning
> message saying "erase failed" and "do not reboot".
> 
> I haven't rebooted.
> 
> As far as I can tell from using flashrom itself, everything is
> actually fine. The erase appears to have failed at physical address 0,
> which I would guess means that nothing actually happened.
> 
> I had taken a dump of the original bios before starting, and "flashrom
> -v" now verifies that it is identical.
> 
> Furthermore, a new dump of the bios matches the original dump from
> before I tried to write the bios.
> 
> My board is an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum.
> 
> Output from my dump attempt and subsequent messing around follows.
> 
> Do I have your blessing to reboot my machine?
> 
> --Fraser

-> r816.

Luc Verhaegen.