Noob flashing libreboot

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pizzaiolo
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Iscritto: 03/12/2015

Hi everyone.

So I decided I'm going to buy a Macbook2,1 and I intend to flash libreboot in it, but I have found the instructions given here (http://www.libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html#flashrom_macbook21) a bit unclear.

Is there some sort of walkthrough for noobs? Or detailed documentation for beginners to get this working without bricking it? Any information on this would be excellent.

Thanks!

tomlukeywood
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Iscritto: 12/05/2014

i suggest asking the pepole at the #libreboot irc channel

and they will help you step by step

as said before i very much advise getting advice from the libreboot pepole at #libreboot before you do this so you dont brick your machine

but basicly

while running trisquel gnu/linux on your macbook2,1

download the libreboot binarys from here:
http://mirrors.mit.edu/libreboot/20150208/libreboot_bin.tar.xz

extract them

then go into the extracted directory

and run
sudo ./flash i945apple_firstflash ./bin/macbook21/the_rom_you_want.rom

and wait for it to be installed
you will know if it was sucsessfull if this message was displayed:
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

then shut down

pizzaiolo
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Iscritto: 03/12/2015

Do I need to have the program flashrom installed?

tomlukeywood
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the flashrom program is included in the libreboot binarys

tomlukeywood
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if you need a video tutorial i can make one also

pizzaiolo
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Iscritto: 03/12/2015

I would love that! Thanks for the replies.

tomlukeywood
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pizzaiolo
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Fantastic! It's easier than I anticipated. Do you mind uploading it to https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/ in a free (CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) license so that I can link to it in the "MacTrisquel" documentation page? https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/macbook

tomlukeywood
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pizzaiolo
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Iscritto: 03/12/2015

Great! I've updated the wiki page. Thanks a lot!

SuperTramp83

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Iscritto: 10/31/2014

Pizzaiolo - great thing! Do it! :)