Chris Parsons wrote:
I'd like to get coreboot working on my PC.
Great!
A concern is that my BIOS chip is soldered down, but the motherboard has a dip switch labelled recover, which I think reflashes from a 3.5in disk when enabled. So that could get me back to a working system.
No. Unless there is a second ROM no switch will help you if coreboot doesn't run on the first attempt - which never happens.
I'm afraid you have to desolder the chip and mount a socket.
//Peter