[flashrom] image size

[Stefan Tauner]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:37:18 +0000
Simon Ramage <freeballsdeuce at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello, hope you can help me, I have bricked my chromebox, been using a
> pomona clip via a raspberry pi on my spi, running flashrom, which finds my
> winbond chip but when i try to write to it, flashrom comes back with an
> error saying "image size (4096 B) doesn't match the flash chip's size
> (8388608 B)!" 

That would mean that you try to write a 4 kB file to an 8 MB flash
chip. flashrom won't allow that for good reasons. It seems like you are
confusing two files IMHO. The 4 kB file is probably just the flash
descriptor but that alone is probably not what you want to write.

> and when i go to the properties of the image it is similar to
> the chip's size.

I certainly doubt that. It is more likely that you are comparing
something else than flashrom does (i.e. you are looking at the wrong
file).

> Have tried using hex editor on windows and flashing that
> format but keep getting same error message, hope you can help me with
> regard to this, thankyou.

You probably want to use a pre-built image by John Lewis. They should
have the correct size...
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner