[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max no longer booting to UEFI Shell

David Anders danders at circuitco.com
Thu Aug 14 16:07:28 UTC 2014


Adam,

as long as the UEFI is still functional, you can run a tool to update 
the firmware. unfortunately the ones that have the firmware corrupted 
can not be recovered without flashing via the SPI header.

we have already started plans to add a jumper to the board to allow the 
firmware to be reset to factory defaults. if we had done this on the 
current design, we could have avoided this situation....

Dave

On 08/14/2014 10:42 AM, Adam Goode wrote:
>
> Can these boards do self-flashing? Like with the flashrom tool?
>
> It would be nice to have future firmware updates available and not 
> need an external programmer.
>
> Adam
>
> On Aug 14, 2014 11:37 AM, "Hawley, John" <john.hawley at intel.com 
> <mailto:john.hawley at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     If you have a SPI programmer that can do 1.8v (dediprog for
>     instance), you can do the flashing yourself, but as I have been
>     led to believe, a 3.3v spi flasher won't work.  You may need to
>     talk to contact CircuitCo and send it back.
>
>     If you do have something like a dediprog, let me know and I'll get
>     you a firmware package to flash onto the board, and what you need
>     to connect and such.
>
>     - John
>
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>     Kaila
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>     <mailto:elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
>     > Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max no longer booting to UEFI
>     > Shell
>     >
>     > Bryan Smith <bryan at ...> writes:
>     >
>     > >
>     > > Hey Dave,
>     > >
>     > > I actually started looking at a flyswatter already as I
>     figured that
>     > > this was the case. Just wanted to report the issue.
>     > >
>     > > Thanks,
>     > >
>     > > Bryan
>     > > > Bryan,
>     > > >
>     > > > this is the second report from an early adopter with this
>     issue. it
>     > > > appears to be a corruption of the UEFI firmware and appears
>     to be
>     > > > software related.
>     > > > we are
>     > > > looking into it now. the only way to fix this is to reflash
>     the UEFI
>     > > > firmware via the SPI header.
>     > > >
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > It seems we have a similar problem. Out of the two boards we
>     have, the first
>     > one stopped working yesterday. Both blue LEDs are lit, but
>     there's no video
>     > output at all, USB and Ethernet are also dead.
>     >
>     > What procedure do you recommend, should we return the board or is it
>     > possible to do this reflash? I couldn't find any instructions or
>     firmware
>     > for the MAX board anywhere on Intel's site.
>     >
>     > On another note, I had to go through several monitors until I
>     found one that
>     > would accept the video signal output by the board (apparently
>     it's 720p @
>     > 60Hz). Perhaps a more universal video mode as default would be more
>     > useful?
>     >
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