Cooper Harrison wrote:
the bios chip is built into the board,
Soldered on? Does flashrom find the flash chip?
but would the bios bootblock not work?
No. You will replace the complete factory BIOS if you try coreboot.
is there any way to check for a bootblock? this is a good computer and I do not want to kill it.
Which is why you need a way to recover from when the first version of coreboot that you try does not work. It most likely will not work without tuning, so please prepare for this.
//Peter