xx30 BIOS Whitelist Removal
The T430 BIOS chip is under the motherboard, requiring you to completely disassemble the machine to access the BIOS chip. This is not easy.
-
back-up the bios from the T430 system board using software tools provided in this forum. (need to find them) It will also list the chip for bios.
-
Disassemble T430 as per HMM, bios chip is located in area under the touchpad. See below pic:
- To test the flash programmer, use it to make a second backup.
The BIOS chip is thankfully, located just under the keyboard.
It is an SOIC-8 chip.
Coreboot is an open source, user configurable BIOS. However, it does use a few proprietary blobs here and there.
These require hardware flashing. Due to Intel Management Firmware, proprietary blobs are required for newer Intel motherboards to even power up.
-
ThinkPad T430/X230
- xx30 BIOS Whitelist Removal
- xx30 BIOS Mod with Old Keyboard - Since Libreboot's ROMs each can use a different keyboard layout, would it be possible to modify Coreboot to work with the old xx20 keyboard? Or just mod the official BIOS to do so?
- ThinkPad X201
- ThinkPad T60p (ATI GPU)
- ThinkPad T22 - Back when Coreboot was known as "LinuxBIOS", they installed it on a ThinkPad T22 for Richard Stallman.
Most Intel Chromebooks come with Coreboot preinstalled. SeaBIOS can optionally be installed to add Windows support.
Just use John Lewis's Installation Script for All Models to autoinstall.
-
Chromebook Coreboot Installation - Install Coreboot + SeaBIOS for 2nd gen laptops. Not necessary for 3rd gen.
- Acer C7 Chromebook
- Toshiba Chromebook 2 - The only 13-inch model around with an FHD 1920x1080 IPS screen.
- Samsung Series 5 550
- Acer C720 Chromebook
- ThinkPad X131e Chromebook
- Install Typical BIOS
- Chromebook Pixel
NOTE: The Libreboot components of this wiki was divested into the Official Libreboot Documentation here. Please use that from now on.
Libreboot laptops are certified by the FSF to protect your freedom.
They contain no proprietary blobs of any kind, and have the best support for FSF certified GNU/LInux.
- Customizing Libreboot
- X60 T60 Hardware Flashing
- X200 X201 Hardware Flashing
- Installing Trisquel with Full Disk Encryption
- BIOS Flashchip Identification Method
- Phoenix BIOS Crisis Recovery - (under research) Software method for recovering the factory BIOS, even if you lost the original dump.