BIOS modding issue...

[picciola12]

Hello. It's nice to meet you.

What I am trying to do is booting from USB 3.0 stick on USB 3.0 PCI-E card.
(Onboard USB 2.0 boot works well.)
So, I want to modify my bios but I am quite not experiened in modding BIOS...

[What I've done]
$cdrom198exe bios.rom /d
$cdrom198.exe bios.rom /pci extract
// I've chosen "PCI ROM[D] RTEGROM.LOM" //

$cdrom198.exe bios.rom /pci release
// I've chosen "PCI ROM[D] RTEGROM.LOM" //

$ren RTEGROM.LOM RTEGROM.BAK
$ren plpbtrom.bin RTEGROM.LOM
$cdrom198.exe bios.rom /pci RTEGROM.LOM
// Then, I got this. Maybe caused by size diffenece?

cbrom198.exe V1.98 [08/27/08] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2008
Adding RTEGROM.LOM ..... 59.7%
Can't renameCAUTION: RTEGROM.LOM file is not BIOS ROM

//


I've also tried another versions of cbrom (cbrom182, cbrom195 and cbrom196)
but no luck.

Any helps?


================================================================================
<Specification>

M/B  ; Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev1.1
Award BIOS rev. ; F12
USB 3.0 PCI Express Card ; ORICO PME-4U
Bootloader ; Chameleon boot loader
OS ; OS X (Yosemite) / Windows XP (32bit)
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$cbrom /d
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cbrom198.exe V1.98 [08/27/08] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2008

              ********     bios.rom BIOS component ********

No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================================================
  0. System BIOS       20000h(128.00K)13C7Eh(79.12K)EP45UD3R.BIN
  1. XGROUP CODE       0DFF0h(55.98K)09A43h(38.57K)awardext.rom
  2. ACPI table        04E4Eh(19.58K)0195Bh(6.34K)ACPITBL.BIN
  3. EPA LOGO          0168Ch(5.64K)0005Eh(0.09K)AwardBmp.bmp
  4. GROUP ROM[18]     04390h(16.89K)02CF8h(11.24K)ggroup.bin
  5. GROUP ROM[20]     02FD0h(11.95K)02342h(8.81K)ffgroup.bin
  6. TSEG0              00430h(1.05K)00348h(0.82K)y2group.bin
  7. YGROUP ROM        0D790h(53.89K)07D7Eh(31.37K)awardeyt.rom
  8. GROUP ROM[22]     0F630h(61.55K)01617h(5.52K)tgroup.bin
  9. GROUP ROM[23]     0F630h(61.55K)02B9Eh(10.90K)t1group.bin
10. GROUP ROM[24]     0F630h(61.55K)01115h(4.27K)t2group.bin
11. GROUP ROM[ 0]     085C0h(33.44K)02E65h(11.60K)_EN_CODE.BIN
12. MINIT             13AC0h(78.69K)13AF8h(78.74K)DS3_DDR2.BIN
13. PCI ROM[A]        04000h(16.00K)02B4Bh(10.82K)ICHAAHCI.BIN
14. PCI ROM        10000h(64.00K)09E3Eh(39.56K)ICHARAID.BIN
15. PCI ROM[C]        07C00h(31.00K)045B6h(17.43K)jmb10678.bin
16. LOGO1 ROM         00B64h(2.85K)00520h(1.28K)dbios.bmp
17. LOGO BitMap       4B30Ch(300.76K)134B5h(77.18K)ud3.bmp
18. GV3                0234Dh(8.83K)00C31h(3.05K)PPMINIT.ROM
19. OEM0 CODE         030C6h(12.19K)02339h(8.81K)SBF.BIN
20. PCI ROM[D]        10000h(64.00K)093C6h(36.94K)RTEGROM.LOM
(SP) NCPUCODE          20801h(130.00K)20801h(130.00K)NCPUCODE.BIN

  Total compress code space  = E5000h(916.00K)
  Total compressed code size = 99206h(612.51K)
  Remain compress code space = 4BE1Ah(303.53K)

              ********     bios.rom Bootblock component ********

No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================================================
  1. MEM INIT IN BB    07960h(30.34K)07991h(30.39K)DDR2_bb.BIN

                          ** Micro Code Information **
Update ID  CPUID  | Update ID  CPUID   | Update ID  CPUID   | Update ID  CPUID 
------------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------
SLOT1  0A 00000F32| SLOT1  02 00000F37| SLOT1  17 00000F34| PGA423 2C 00000F25
SLOT1  17 00000F41| SLOT1  05 00000F43| SLOT1  03 00000F49| SLOT1  04 00000F4A
SLOT1  06 00000F44| SLOT1  03 00000F47| PGA478 07 00000F61| PGA478 0F 00000F62
SLOT1  04 00000F64| PGA478 0B 00000F65| SLOT1  11 000006F1| SLOT1  26 000006F4
SLOT1  33 000006F5| SLOT1  33 000006F5| SLOT1  CB 000006F6| PPGA   68 000006F7
SLOT1  04 00010660| SLOT1  5A 000006F2| SLOT1  82 000006F9| SLOT1  38 00010661
SLOT1  B6 000006FB| SLOT1  A3 000006FD| PPGA   B6 000006FB| SLOT1  06 00010671
SLOT1  04 00010674| SLOT1  0C 00010676| SLOT1  07 0001067A| PPGA   06 00010671
PPGA   04 00010674| PPGA   0C 00010676| PPGA   05 00010677|

[Elmar]

hello,

i cannot say why the rom mod doesn't work. But it seem that you think that usb 3.0 and/or pci-e cards are supported by the plop boot manager. both is not supported by the 5.x version.

best regards
elmar

[picciola12]

Oh, I didn't know that...

Then, I hope that these features would be included in the next version.

Thank you.