LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Program/Coreboot Install Party

Organization

People involved in the installation

• Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
  • Coreboot contributor(he did the port on the Asus M4A785T-M mainboard).
• Ward Vandewege
  • CTO of the Free Software Foundation
  • Did some coreboot work in the past and handled coreboot computers(desktops,servers) at the FSF

Flashing

X60/T60

• The flashing procedure is here and must be followed carefully by people who understand it. else the laptop will have to be disassembled and reflashed with the recovery method.
• Since there is only two people installing coreboot for now, A special image that contains everything on an USB key will have to be prepared to make the installation faster.

Recovery

X60/T60

The recovery method requires:

• to disassemble the laptop
• another computer with flashrom
• a programmer (Denis has some and will bring his openmoko debug board)
• a pomona clip(Denis has one and will bring it)
• some way to connect the pomona clip to the programmer(problematic, Denis has a fragile connection in form of IDE cable connector)

Reservation for users

Since we replace the BIOS, we need to be prepaired to recover if something goes wrong...In order to be well prepaired we need to know how many people will want coreboot, and on which computers:

Insert your name and computer(s) below

• Example-person: X60