[coreboot] Use VBIOS from vendor's original bin file

Zvi Vered veredz72 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 05:59:02 CET 2018


Hi Mike,

Thank you very much !

Best regards,
Zvika

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:43 AM Mike Banon <mikebdp2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Zvika,
>
> > How can it find [VBIOS] in the vendor's bin file ?
>
> It really depends on the type of vendor's BIOS because they could be
> packed differently. For example, if your vendor's BIOS is Inside then
> you can use Inside H2OEZE utility (sadly its' Windows-only and not
> available officially, but you could find it if really want). But
> please keep in mind that your vendor's BIOS might be patching that
> VBIOS during booting, if that is indeed so - then a "clean" unpatched
> VBIOS extracted with this method, either will not work at all or work
> with errors. So it is always recommended to extract VBIOS from a
> running system, just in case. Usually these instructions are working -
> https://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support#How_to_retrieve_a_good_video_bios
> , see "Retrieval via Linux kernel" part. But if that's not working at
> your system and you've tried everything else, here is a great
> alternative method -
> https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-July/084660.html
>
> Best regards,
> Mike Banon
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:18 PM Zvi Vered <veredz72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Currently I'm replacing the BIOS in the vendor's bin file with
> coreboot.bin
> > Can coreboot use Vendor's VBIOS instead of the serial console ?
> > How can it find it in the vendor's bin file ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Zvika
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