I took note of the concerns regarding the installation of OpenBIOS in my case.

Possibly, OpenBIOS isn't the perfectly right choice for me but the wrong one would be to stay with my current BIOS.

I turned to the coreboot mailing list and made clear I'd like to install coreboot with OpenBIOS. Finally that link was provided https://doc.coreboot.org/tutorial/part1.html. I followed the instructions until Step 5 - Configure the build > Check your configuration (optional step). As I didn't read anything on OpenBIOS in the commands I asked whether I was installing OpenBIOS at all. I've been told that I installed coreinfo, instead.

What should I do now (delete the current installation which I made, yet?) if I'd like to use OpenBIOS (with coreboot; as OpenBIOS alone doesn't seem to work) and where do I find a tutorial or guide that really applies to what I intend to do?

Regards,

Bernd


-------- Originalnachricht --------
Betreff: Re: AW:[OpenBIOS] Re: Installing OpenBIOS
Von: Mark Cave-Ayland
An: bernd1-1@web.de
Cc:


On 24/10/2021 06:49, bernd1-1@web.de wrote:

> Hi Mark. Thank you for providing the link https://www.coreboot.org/OpenBIOS. I'm
> going to go through the instructions step by step.
>
> I use Ubuntu. When I do
>
> apt-get install fcode-utils
>
> I get something like the following response:
>
> E: Locked file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend couldn't be opened. - open (13: No Permission)
> E: Reaching the lock for the Dpkg interface (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend) not
> possible; are you root?
>
> Is that because I don't have root permissions? Should I put
>
> sudo
>
> in front of the command?

Yes, that is correct.

However I would strongly recommend asking the coreboot people first which would be
the most suitable BIOS for your ThinkPad, since OpenBIOS these days is mostly used
for emulators like QEMU for running older software. Once you've made a suitable
choice, the coreboot project should be able to point you towards further reading to
help get everything built and installed correctly.


ATB,

Mark.