Libreboot

Anyone here successfully seen anything other than 00 on their mPCIe POST card? I have tried it on different Thinkpads with different versions of libreboot & coreboot and yet it never display anything useful, even when system successfully boots.

I have a ThinkPad X60 tablet with libreboot installed. Just last night, most of the little icon lights below the display stopped working, including the lights for sleep mode, charger connected, battery, computer on, hard drive access, caps lock, and number lock. The only one that is on as I type this is the wifi light.

Is this is a display issue, do you think?

My thinkpad T440p will be coming in soon and I been considering Coreboot/Libreboot but it requirwes a usb bios programmer, there are many of these from many different sellers on Amazon, but all of them are made in China by unknown companies, can these have any malware of them ?

A bit old news, but still relevant.

With the help of a friend, I librebooted my T420! I used a Raspberry Pi 4B and Pomona 5250 to flash the GRUB payload. It boots extremely quick now and just works. Despite the picture, I'm running the latest June 25th release but I put the old gnulove.jpg background picture on.

The only issue is when I reboot from Linux, my SSD isn't recognized until I power it off and back on again (cold boot). The folks in the IRC say it's probably a bug.

Overall, I'm happy with the state of my ThinkPad and it's running as much libre code as it reasonably can (but I still like having WiFi).

I wrote this guide because some of the important information on the E6400 installation was spread across multiple pages of the Libreboot.org website. My goal was to consolidate everything into a single guide.

"That'll hold him, all right."

I'm aware that Leah strongly discourages using CH341a, but I understand that this is chiefly because it's voltage is 5V, whiich risks burning the 1.8V or 3.3V datalines of the devices we're librebooting.

At the same time, I've seen a popular video specifically recommending CH341a when librebooting an X200. I assume this advice should be ignored.

However, Leah also specifies that you can technically tweak the CH341a to reduce it's voltage, following this guidance.

My question is: is this worth it, or is it safer to just use a Beaglebone Black/Raspbery Pi instead? What's your experience been?

I'm unfortunately on a budget, and BB/RPi are both prohibitively expensive for me. Then again, so is a laptop that's bricked thanks to an improperly fixed CH341a.

Have you had problems using a (tweaked or untweaked) CH341a? What's your advice? I really appreciate it. Thanks!

This is a Lemmy community created to discuss all things Libreboot. As you can tell, it's quite empty here, so please feel welcome to fill it up with your experiences of Libreboot.

I've created this community to do my part and help the migration from Reddit to Lemmy. Lemmy isn't perfect, but it's closer to Libreboot's spirit than Reddit is. That's what I think, anyway.