hmarcy.com » Hardware http://www.hmarcy.com "What would you do if you knew you could not fail ?" Robert H. Schuller Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:52:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to flash the BIOS of your Shuttle Barebone with Linux http://www.hmarcy.com/2009/04/how-to-flash-the-bios-of-your-shuttle-barebone/ http://www.hmarcy.com/2009/04/how-to-flash-the-bios-of-your-shuttle-barebone/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:57:43 +0000 HervĂ© http://www.hmarcy.com/?p=207 As a Linux user and open-source evangelist, it is for me a pain that a hardware maker like Shuttle (which products I love by the way) is not providing any tool to upgrade the BIOS of my motherboard. Being the happy owner of a SN68PTG5, I have been terribly disappointed to see that Shuttle was only providing the BIOS upgrade for Windows users through a freeware called WinFlash.

That’s fine for users running proprietary software, but I have found a simple solution to flash your BIOS without even have to run WinFlash with Wine (which did not work for me anyway).

1) Download the BIN file provided on the Shuttle website for your version of the Shuttle

2) To install the flashrom package on Ubuntu (from the universe repository) enter

$ sudo apt-get install flashrom

3) Determine what is your BIOS by entering

$ sudo flashrom
[sudo] password for user1:
Calibrating delay loop… OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset “NVIDIA MCP67″, enabling flash write… OK.
Found chip “PMC Pm49FL004″ (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.
No operations were specified.

I obviously own a PC with the chipset Nvidia MCP67 and I check if this chipset is supported
I perform a backup of my existing BIOS and then I flash it

$ sudo flashrom -r backup.bin
$ sudo flashrom -wv SN68SP0P.BIN

SN68SP0P.BIN being the file downloaded in 1)

Reboot to check if you really have the latest version of the BIOS (press Del if you just see the hiding screen instead of the real BIOS screen) and you should see “SN68SP0P” on the top-left corner of your screen.

ATTENTION : to flash a BIOS can have severe consequences for your PC so be careful when doing it and do not make me responsible for having screwed your box :)

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