installing libreboot on a x60 thinkpad

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.

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 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 ...

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 :(

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.

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