Libreboot 20210522 released

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libreleah
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Hi everyone!

Libreboot is free (as in freedom) boot firmware, which initializes the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, peripherals) in your computer so that software can run. Libreboot then starts a bootloader to load your operating system. It replaces the proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware typically found on a computer. Libreboot is compatible with specifical computer models that use the Intel/AMD x86 architecture. Libreboot works well with GNU+Linux and BSD operating systems.

You can find the full release announcement here:

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20210522.html

Happy hacking!

~Leah

lanun
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Joined: 04/01/2021

Thanks for your work on Libreboot, Leah.

Since you are here, is it me or is everything currently out of stock on https://retrofreedom.com ?

EDIT: sorry, by "everything", I meant "all the librebooted machines."

libreleah
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Joined: 04/03/2017

they will be back soon. i haven't done much business (for about 8 weeks or so) because i've been focusing on libreboot development so as to get the release out. now that the release is out, my primary focus will now be the business, so i should be back in stock soon

lanun
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Joined: 04/01/2021

Thank you very much.

I was only asking because some people I know might be interested, and I wanted to avoid sending them to an "Out of stock" situation. I'll wait until they are back, then.

Beformed
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Joined: 01/12/2017

Hello Leah,

Thanks for letting us know. I just installed it on my X200. Apparently GRUB didn't like my hard drive but seabios worked just fine.

Thanks for working on this great project.

When are you having a prebuilt of osboot. I'd like to try it on my X220

libreleah
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Joined: 04/03/2017

osboot is my next target. shouldn't take me too long. i have a few things i need to do for the next few weeks, so i'm going to say next month for an osboot release.

nadebula.1984
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Joined: 05/01/2018

Congratulations. This is the "scientific attitude" as I explained before. For the 30-minute time bomb of post-Core 2 platforms, it is Intel that should be blamed, not coreboot or me_cleaner contributors, nor the users who "foolishly" purchased post-Core 2 computers. I'm looking forward to seeing "osboot" as free/libre as coreboot on more recent platforms.

Gnu
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Joined: 03/08/2012

Hi Leah, grateful for reading you.
I'll wait the stable released for flash a new ROM,
but watching the new grub file I saw it different.

What about the cryptsetup entry?

This is my file modification, but I can't understand how modify the new one:


menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o' {
cryptomount -a
set root='lvm/X200-disco'
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/X200-disco cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/X200-disco:root
initrd /initrd.img
}

Last question, which differences are between:

- grub_x200_8mb_libgfxinit_corebootfb_esqwerty.rom
- seabios_grubfirst_x200_8mb_libgfxinit_corebootfb_esqwerty.rom
- seabios_withgrub_x200_8mb_libgfxinit_corebootfb_esqwerty.rom

Thanks!

Malsasa
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Joined: 12/01/2016

Congratulations to Libreboot Project!

libreleah
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Joined: 04/03/2017

Hi,

https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_cbfs.html shows you how to modify the grub.cfg, if you need to do that.

As for ROM image file names, see: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/#about-rom-image-file-names

Jorah Dawson
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Joined: 12/13/2020

First of all, thanks Leah for the new version!

On the other hand, sorry for my blunder but I can't find the flash file in order to run "flash update"

How did you update it?

libreleah
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Joined: 04/03/2017

See: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/#install-via-host-cpu-internal-flashing

This shows you how to reflash via host CPU, using flashrom in a GNU+Linux system running on the target machine.

EDIT: to be clear, the "flash" script and the utils archive have been scrapped, for now. releases are just ROMs and src. the instructions that i linked show you how to use flashrom directly

Jorah Dawson
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Joined: 12/13/2020

Nice! Thanks.

sudo flashrom -p internal --ifd -i bios -w libreboot.rom (EDITED)

And worked like a charm on my T400.

Greetings.