[coreboot] [coreboot - Other #554] (New) Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!!

Issue #554 has been reported by Simon Dominic. Other #554: Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!! https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/554 * Author: Simon Dominic * Status: New * Priority: Normal * Target version: none * S

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #549] coreboot 24.05: SeaBIOS Windows 10/11 BSOD "ACPI BIOS ERROR" (Thinkpad W530)

Issue #549 has been updated by Simon Dominic. Simon Dominic wrote in #note-16: > I could be completely wrong, but I gather libgfxinit (as opposed to "VGA > Option ROMS") is disabling (full) activation of the dGPU. If I wanted to go > that latter not-recommended route, how should display mode be

[coreboot] [coreboot - Other #554] (Rejected) Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!!

Issue #554 has been updated by Matt DeVillier. Status changed from New to Rejected > This completely messes up the bios chips' firmware tabling, making it > impossible to internally or externally flash (while the chips were still on > the motherboard). You cannot read or write from either of th

[coreboot] [coreboot - Other #554] Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!!

Issue #554 has been updated by Evgeny Zinoviev. Oh come on, please stop spreading FUD. First on reddit, now here. I actually submitted the W530 coreboot port, and I developed this ifd-changing trick in order to simplify my life when I had to reflash frequently, as I had to do it really many ma

[coreboot] [coreboot - Other #554] Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!!

Issue #554 has been updated by Simon Dominic. Matt DeVillier wrote in #note-1: > I'm not sure what you did, but the instructions you followed would not do > what you claimed. Massive blind spot on my part - forgot to write what caused it. I followed the guide completely, and the actual flashin

[coreboot] [coreboot - Other #554] Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!!

Issue #554 has been updated by Nico Huber. Hmmm, that guide could use a section how to update coreboot from then on. But other than that it seems absolutely fine. Simon, all your problems beyond that (not knowing how to get flashrom to write the update, not being able to flash externally) are

[coreboot] [coreboot - Other #554] Do not follow ch1p's guide on flashing Thinkpad W530 with only 8MB chip!!

Issue #554 has been updated by Evgeny Zinoviev. > I just said you were being very helpful I know, I saw, thank you for that. I'm just saying that IFD is not the problem... I gave you correct (I believe) instructions on how to fix it. Flashrom was unable to flash 0x0080 and above because th