installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

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tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

i have purchased a old x60 thinkpad computer from ebay
with the intent to flash libreboot on it
so it will become a fully libre computer

how risky is this?
what are the chances of bricking the device?

if anyone of this forum has done this
have easy was it?

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also while i am posting this if anyone
can help with this:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/problems-compiling-source
it would be a big help!

and just to let people know there
is another gnu approved libre gnu/linux distro:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

AnhangGröße
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doolio
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Beigetreten: 12/31/2013

Check out these guides provided by the libreboot devs if you haven't already. They are very well written and there exists documentation to rescue a bricked machine.

http://libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html

I believe future libreboot releases will support Guix and ProteanOs.

amenex
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Beigetreten: 01/03/2015

Just a note of experience from this long-time (three weeks) Trisquel user: Make a bootable flash drive (I used an 8GB one) and load Trisquel's iso with the nice usb-flashdrive installer. Add as many applications with the software installer as you like, being sure to check how much free space remains on the flash drive, and give it a try. You can re-install Trisquel and a few less applications if you brick the flashdrive ... I did that about three times. Unless you set out to do so deliberately, there's not much you can do to the candidate laptop except running GParted on the laptop's hard drive accidentally. Or accidentally hitting the "install" button during bootup - you can even cancel that if you're paying attention.

You can run the laptop from the Trisquel flash drive as long as you like; it boots up quickly and gives the laptop full functionality without resorting to any portion of the laptop's original operating system. You can even mount, read & write to the laptop's hard drive, so long as there is room on it. All files on the laptop are accessible as well (I dunno about password protections on that laptop's files, however - but my own laptop has not rejected access to my data files when running Trisquel from the flashdrive).

tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

i think you misunderstood my question
i am already running trisquel 7

what i am trying to do is install libreboot a libre bios:
http://libreboot.org/

amenex
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Beigetreten: 01/03/2015

tomlukeywood said, properly:

> I think you misunderstood my question

I sure did. However, I now understand the basic process better after doing Intel's boot update for my G865GLC motherboard. Intel's instructions rather set the standard for understandability, if not the four freedoms ...

tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

i have installed libreboot and at first all seemed
fine it shows the grub menu
but when i tried to boot to a os it gave this error:
disk ahci(0,1) not found

i can edit the commands
and i can go to a grub command line

dose anyone know the command to boot a kernel in grub?

or any way for me to make this libreboot install work?

note:
i dont have a hardrive in the computer
i am trying to boot to ether my usb stick
or a usb cd drive with a gnewsense live cd in it

also it failed to run grub invaders :(

quantumgravity
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Beigetreten: 04/22/2013

Are you sure that libreboot actually supports booting from usb?
I know that its features are limited....
My guess is that this is the problem.

tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

i installed a HDD and it gave the same error

dose anyone else have libreboot

or know how to could boot to a os from the grub command line?

also just to note i have not compleated the second stage of the installation yet theses instructions told me to reboot before completing them
http://www.libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html#flashrom_lenovobios

SuperTramp83

I am a translator!

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Beigetreten: 10/31/2014

tomlukey - go to #libreboot on freenode and ask there - I hope you'll succeed liberating your lappy - I would be thrilled if I had one of those
cheers

tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

i have emailed name at domain and i am waiting
for a reply

i got myn for £30 on ebay and i have seen a few other for about that since so if you want to try its not too expensive
to get one

i think the main reason why i am having problems is i dont have a HDD/SSD inside the computer so ill let you know if thats the problem
but flashing the rom itself is very easy

but if you dont want this risk of messing it up then get a gluglug one which you can get for £198

also you could get it even cheaper by getting a £30 one and paying for there £128 service of flashing it for you
so it costs £158

tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

hello i have received a email from name at domain

and memtest and grub invaders were not working for me
as the developers did not cross compile them
for the x60 textmode roms
so its best for now to flash the vesafb roms

so sadly we will have to wait a bit longer to play
space invaders in out bios :( (unless you have a 64-bit processor)

also you can boot to a usb stick in libreboot
with the instructions that i will be following here:
http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/index.html

also i think you have to run gnu/linux on libreboot
so libertybsd may not boot on it

i will post when i have tried to follow the instructions more which will be when i have time.

tomlukeywood
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Beigetreten: 12/05/2014

i have has success!
i got it to boot to a usb

the mistake i made was using unetbootin to
make a live usb stick
make sure you follow the instructions here:
http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html