main26 Aug 2007 06:32 pm
I just got LinuxBIOS working on my desktop at work, and can I say, “This is awesome”.
Basically, it’s a drop-in replacement for many proprietary BIOS firmwares. No more nasty, unreliable (at least on today’s drives) floppy disks booting DOS just to bit-bang some memory address with some new firmware. I’m fed up with that crap. Not that I ever really have to do it often, but anyone who’s ever done it in recent years knows just how sucky the process can be.
Anyway, the install was the easiest thing ever. First, I checked out the info-packed LinuxBIOS wiki to see if my motherboard was supported, then just grabbed the latest code from SVN, ran make for the flashrom tool, and I was off to the races.