firmware_update_pc_engines_apu
PC Engines APU2 - update BIOS via USB
Create bootable USB stick
- Download TinyCore image.
- Write image to USB flash drive.
zcat apu2-tinycore6.4.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sda bs=1M conv=fsync status=progress
- Mount the USB flash drive.
- Download latest bios to USB flash drive.
- Boot APU2 (press F10 and select USB flash drive).
SeaBIOS (version rel-1.11.0.5-0-gd34c797) Press F10 key now for boot menu, N for PXE boot Select boot device: 1. AHCI/0: KINGSTON SMS200S330G ATA-8 Hard-Disk (28626 MiBytes) 2. USB MSC Drive SanDisk Ultra 1.00 3. iPXE 4. Payload [setup] 5. Payload [memtest] Booting from Hard Disk... SYSLINUX 6.03 EDD 20150820 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al SYSLINUX 6.03 20150820 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al Loading vmlinuz...Loading vmlinuz... ook k Loading core.gz..Loading core.gz....ook <SNIP> ____ ____ _____ _ | _ \ / ___| | ____|_ __ __ _(_)_ __ ___ ___ | |_) | | | _| | '_ \ / _` | | '_ \ / _ \/ __| | __/| |___ | |___| | | | (_| | | | | | __/\__ \ |_| \____| |_____|_| |_|\__, |_|_| |_|\___||___/ |___/ TinyCore 6.4 www.tinycorelinux.com login[525]: root login on 'ttyS0' searching for home directory ... FAT partition not mounted yet, retrying since 0 sscsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Ultra 6 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 60063744 512-byte logical blocks: (30.7 GB/28.6 GiB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: sdb1 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk FAT partition not mounted yet, retrying since 1 sFAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounte. random: nonblocking pool is initialized FAT partition not mounted yet, retrying since 14 sSorry, FAT partition not found. -sh: /root/takemehome.sh: line 22: fail_beep: not found -sh: /root/takemehome.sh: ./autostart.sh: not found root@box:~#
- Start update.
root@box:~# flashrom -p internal -w /media/SYSLINUX/apu2_v4.11.0.1.rom flashrom v0.9.8-r1888 on Linux 3.16.6-tinycore (i686) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK. coreboot table found at 0xcfed2000. Found chipset "AMD FCH". Enabling flash write... OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0xff800000. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done. Verifying flash... VERIFIED. root@box:~#
- Reboot
firmware_update_pc_engines_apu.txt · Last modified: 2021/10/09 15:14 by 127.0.0.1