17:47 <UndrWater> hey all! i've got a couple C201 chromebooks i'm working with. one is soft bricked after flashing libreboot. the other is currently running gentoo. is it possible to take a copy of the working laptop's coreboot and flash it to the "bad" one?

17:51 <vagrantc> you've got that hardware to flash the soic chip directly?

17:53 <UndrWater> vagrantc: i was thinking (hoping?) i could do it with the "internal" programmer

17:53 <UndrWater> when flashing libreboot, that's how one goes about it

17:54 <vagrantc> well, you can dump it, but if the second one is really "soft bricked" then how will you program that machine?

17:55 <UndrWater> yeah, i wasn't clear. it boots crOS from libreboot, but i don't have access to external media boot

17:56 <vagrantc> ah, that's a different story indeed :)

17:58 <UndrWater> so...i've installed google's flashrom, but i get an error about missing /dev/spidev. i've got that in my kernel, and module is loaded ,but sure enough, the /dev isn't there

18:00 <UndrWater> my next though is to recover crOS on the good device, and flash from there. but i was curious if anyone here was more familar with the tool such that i could do it from my current linux install.

19:52 <UndrWater> success! i was able to grab the coreboot from "good" device and flash it to "bad" device

20:01 <vagrantc> great