Tool to Insert/Replace SLIC in Phoenix / Insyde / Dell / EFI BIOSes

Discussion in 'MDL Projects and Applications' started by andyp, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. azlvda

    azlvda MDL Member

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    hi andy,
    flash official bios then modded one
    still wont work with new b2 :(

    sorry for bad english
     
  2. crappy44

    crappy44 MDL Novice

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    Hi Andy,

    error 6 is gone and I can integrate modules now in the main bios. Good job! Unfortunately Intel Integrator Toolikit detects that somehow and as soon as I mod the main bios I get a popup message that this bios file is invalid. Any idea on this? Maybe a checksum?
     
  3. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    Redownload and try again. Different patch
    I can see one other possible location if this doesn't work. Then will try one with all 3.

    Andy

     
  4. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    There are digital signatures. These cannot be patched, and as far as we could tell we hypothesised that the existing EFI is responsible for updating itself, and checks the digital signature. The only we thought you could get round would be to flash the EFI straight on to a chip - but would need to do lots of work figuring out what is actually on the chip out of the EFI FV.

    Andy
     
  5. azlvda

    azlvda MDL Member

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    bad news
    it wont boot to windows even usb boot (just blank screen after post)
    re-flash to official bios from easy flash
     
  6. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    Redownload and try again :)
    Andy
     
  7. azlvda

    azlvda MDL Member

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    stiil same ..wont boot to windows :(
    seems i have to give up lol ..
     
  8. crappy44

    crappy44 MDL Novice

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    Well, since I can flash a modded recovery bios with that update check patched in the flashupdate utility this digital signing is gone now :D thx for the tool :)
     
  9. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    So you CAN flash a EFI with a main module modded??
    Andy
     
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    otaznik MDL Novice

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  11. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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  12. otaznik

    otaznik MDL Novice

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    I tried it now on USB stick (not sure if it is advised or not) and on another partition (I am doing it on laptop, so I can use just one drive, but having a lot of free space to repartition). But still no luck, still the lzma returns -1, and phoenix tool returns unable to compress =/ Could you send some version which will return output received from lzma? I am not sure it the tool compare output of lzma or just return value. Maybe some stdout and stderr redirections of lzma to files could help to find what it does not like =/ (just trying, maybe the trouble is somewhere else, but...it seems that calling lzma with e flag is somehow trouble for the tool) =/
     
  13. otaznik

    otaznik MDL Novice

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    Maybe found the reason

    Hello Andy,

    I played a little bit with the lzma to get info and found that phoenix tool does not wait for process to ends. So, that seems to be reason of my trouble. I am not sure if it is because it just starts process and do not care, or if there is some language default timeout in effect. But...when executing lzma e .... ... the tool try to access the file before lzma exits.

    Can you fix it please ? 8)

    Best regards

    otaznik


     
  14. pansf

    pansf MDL Novice

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