I am actually going through *"Twenty four hours of local cohomology"*. They discuss the Frobenius endomorphism in Chapter 21. Here is the Exercise 21.6 which I am finding hard to solve: Find a ring $R$ of characteristic $p$ with the property that its Frobenius endomorphism $\varphi:R\rightarrow R$ is not flat but $R$ is flat over $\varphi(R)$. The Frobenius endomorphism $\varphi:R\rightarrow R$ is the map $\varphi(r)=r^p$. I am playing around with the ring $k[\![x^2,xy,y^2]\!]$ for which I know the frobenius endomorphism is not flat, but somehow i am not able to prove that $R$ is flat over $\varphi(R)$.