On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Michal Widlok michalwd1979@gmail.com wrote:
Flash is soldered, however I'm prepared to desolder it and install a socket. I also can copy original BIOS to other chip to have a spare. Fortunately I have required equipment here :-).
That's good, in my (very small) experience with coreboot, you have to go back and forth between legacy bios and coreboot.
However I really would like to talk to with a person who already tried this on Dell servers. I don't feel good enough in linux/C/PCs to be the first one who will install coreboot on a rack server. I did not think about coreboot before, but some time ago I saw a WIP for dell 1850, and this triggerd me to post to the list.
If the motherboard components are listed as supported by coreboot, testing is easy, especially if a similar motherboard is already working.
Depending on the similarity level you may just try a coreboot image for the other mobo and see how far it goes.