[flashrom] Need assistance for using non-coreboot bios image

[Idwer Vollering]

2011/4/20 David Bein <d.bein at f5.com>:
> Hello ...
>
>  I am very impressed with flashrom. I just used it on a motherboard based on
> the Lynnfield 3420 chipset and it worked very well and is much faster than
> the
> AMI supplied equivalent.
>
>  I have one problem which is that the very first boot after flashing the
> bios rom
> image,  the bios complains about a CMOS checksum error and patiently
> waits for some input. I am assuming others have been here before. What I did
> next
> was enter the bios menu and tell it to save changes (none made). All boots
> after
> this no longer complain about the CMOS checksum.
>
>  The reason flashrom is interesting to us (aside from not being restricted
> by AMI)
> is for unattended use in customer upgrade situations. Having any upgrade
> path
> require a human to type something is a bit of a problem.
>
>  Any helpful hints will be greatly appreciated.

nvramtool is what you are looking for: http://www.coreboot.org/Nvramtool

>
>  Last but not least, thank you to all of you whole have put a lot of effort
> into
> this tool for use by coreboot and others. This really validates why open
> source
> is needed in the first place.
>
> --David
>
>
>
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