I have coreboot installed on my T430s. Recently, I upgraded my screen using the WQHD upgrade kit. Now, I need to change the video initialization from native to vga bios option rom. This needs a binary blob from the original bios (see https://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support#Ho ... video_bios). However, I have not managed to extract the actual rom from a lenovo bios update. All I found in the iso and exe is a $01D8000.FL1 and $01D8000.FL2 file, which according to google contains the rom, but compressed somehow. I have tried the phcomp.exe tool, but the resulting files still do not work with bios_extract.
Is there a reliable way to extract the rom from the firmware update package? Or, if this is not easily doable, is there a place where I can download the rom?
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[SOLVED] Extracting video bios blob from bios update
[SOLVED] Extracting video bios blob from bios update
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Re: Extracting video bios blob from bios update
There are several options listed on the page you linked to. Do you have the original lenovo rom? You likely saved this just before flashing coreboot.mithodin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:31 amI have coreboot installed on my T430s. Recently, I upgraded my screen using the WQHD upgrade kit. Now, I need to change the video initialization from native to vga bios option rom. This needs a binary blob from the original bios (see https://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support#Ho ... video_bios). However, I have not managed to extract the actual rom from a lenovo bios update. All I found in the iso and exe is a $01D8000.FL1 and $01D8000.FL2 file, which according to google contains the rom, but compressed somehow. I have tried the phcomp.exe tool, but the resulting files still do not work with bios_extract.
Is there a reliable way to extract the rom from the firmware update package? Or, if this is not easily doable, is there a place where I can download the rom?
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Re: Extracting video bios blob from bios update
I tried all the ways available to me. Yes, I have a backup of the original rom, but the script failed to extract anything from it.
Re: Extracting video bios blob from bios update
I went through all the options again and was finally successful with extraction from the original rom. I needed to use UEFITool as described here.
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