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diff --git a/docs/install/x60_unbrick.md b/docs/install/x60_unbrick.md index e1c9098a..0f215302 100644 --- a/docs/install/x60_unbrick.md +++ b/docs/install/x60_unbrick.md @@ -1,30 +1,23 @@ --- title: ThinkPad X60 Recovery guide +x-toc-enable: true ... This section documents how to recover from a bad flash that prevents your ThinkPad X60 from booting. -Table of Contents -================= - -- Types of brick: - - [Brick type 1: bucts not reset](#bucts_brick) - - [Brick type 2: bad rom (or user error), system won't - boot](#recovery) - Brick type 1: bucts not reset. {#bucts_brick} ============================== You still have Lenovo BIOS, or you had libreboot running and you flashed another ROM; and you had bucts 1 set and the ROM wasn't dd'd.\* or if Lenovo BIOS was present and libreboot wasn't flashed.\ -\ + In this case, unbricking is easy: reset BUC.TS to 0 by removing that yellow cmos coin (it's a battery) and putting it back after a minute or two:\ \ -\ + \*Those dd commands should be applied to all newly compiled X60 ROM images (the ROM images in libreboot binary archives already have this applied!):\ @@ -108,11 +101,11 @@ flash chip:\ Now wire up the BBB and the Pomona with your PSU.\ Refer to [bbb\_setup.md](bbb_setup.md) for how to setup the BBB for flashing.\ -**Note, the guide mentions a 3.3v DC PSU but you don't need this on the +*Note, the guide mentions a 3.3v DC PSU but you don't need this on the X60: if you don't have or don't want to use an external PSU, then make sure not to connect the 3.3v leads mentioned in the guide; instead, connect the AC adapter (the one that normally charges your battery) so -that the board has power (but don't boot it up)** +that the board has power (but don't boot it up)* \ Correlate the following with the BBB guide linked above: @@ -133,11 +126,13 @@ Flashrom binaries for ARM (tested on a BBB) are distributed in libreboot\_util. Alternatively, libreboot also distributes flashrom source code which can be built. -SSH'd into the BBB:\ -\# **./flashrom -p linux\_spi:dev=/dev/spidev1.0,spispeed=512 -w -yourrom.rom** +SSH'd into the BBB: -It should be **Verifying flash\... VERIFIED** at the end. If flashrom + # ./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev1.0,spispeed=512 -w + +yourrom.rom + +It should be `Verifying flash... VERIFIED` at the end. If flashrom complains about multiple flash chip definitions detected, then choose one of them following the instructions in the output. @@ -217,8 +212,6 @@ Operating system:\ Copyright © 2014, 2015 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>\ - - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation |