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I assume that skulls is already installed on your x230 and you are happy with it :) however you would like to change the bootsplash image.. It seems to be simple... however it can be "tricky".. or at least it was for me..  That's because the "usable" image created by the skulls script is the "top" one only. the coreboot instructions to flash with a layout file with didn't work for me 0x00000000:0x007fffff ifdmegbe 0x00800000:0x00bfffff bios I get this error: Proceeding anyway because user forced us to. Found chipset "Intel QM77". Enabling flash write... Warning: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. Enabling hardware sequencing due to multiple flash chips detected. OK. Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (12288 kB, Programmer-specific) mapped at physical address 0x0000000000000000. Error: Image size (4194304 B) doesn't match the flash chip's size (12582912 B)! So I thought it could be a good idea to flash fro...

For the purpose of this guide I assume you have flashed already your Thinkpad x230 with Coreboot skulls. How you already know to do so you have flashed externally the top and (eventually) the botton rom separately using an external hardware and the skull scripts. To set a different duration of the boot menu, we need to edit the CBFS etc/ directory and set a different waiting time which the Seabios default is 2,5 seconds. To do so we need to retrieve the full image of your current bios (the 12mb skulls rom) and we can do reading the chip from internal. As usual when performing actions on the bios you need to have linux installed and to have booted your distro with iomem=relaxed option in your grub configuration and having flashrom installed. You can run  sudo flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -r skulls.rom as you can see the -r option will read your bios..  wait until the process ends.. it will retrieve the current image of your bios (which we have named skulls.r...

Get the necessary software and kernel the sources sudo apt-get build-dep linux linux-image-$(uname -r) sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev flex bison openssl libssl-dev dkms libelf-dev libudev-dev libpci-dev libiberty-dev autoconf apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r) *optional - also install lzop if you want to build a kernel compressed in lzo - sudo apt install lzop Once done, to create a static no modular and minimalist kernel enter into the source directory and then run make localmodconfig this will load only the necessary modules to your system excluding any further hardware. Now what you need to do to make it static is to change some settings in the config file run make menuconfig at this point you need to find and chenge the following options inside your kernel configuration: On General setup: *Optional - kernel compression mode - select lzo and add a name in "local version" and "signature" *Optional Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap) - I have dis...

The new Trisquel 9 distro is out and I really think it is great, I have used the "mini" version which supports the fast and light lxde desktop and for this reason is my favorite flavor. At first view you can see that there is some necessary software missing (Firefox-Abrowser for example) and it can be annoying if you wish to make multi functional installations. Therefore there are many programs that allow to remaster a distro or create a live iso of your running system.. However I never liked them.. sometimes I fund issues with the size of the iso created (usually too big) and I never trusted 100% its functionality installing it on different PCs I found out there is a way to "remaster" the original iso manually and including the missing software or making further personalizations. In this case the result will be 100% clean and it will work like the original iso but with the benefit of your own personalizations. As Trisquel is based on Ubuntu, the same process docume...

I have a beautiful t400 running libreboot and still working amazing, however... I needed to boot windows 10 on it ;( I come across some guides on internet to recompile coreboot for this or similar models however the instructions didn't work if you aim to run windows on it.  Obviously re-flashing the stock bios is not a "reasonable" option for me.. and I couldn't find any alternative "ready to go".. so I decided to recompile coreboot and making it capable to boot windows 10 on my t400. From this personal small "project" I got the benefit to be able to boot any other linux distro and any bsd (I have tried freebsd only so far) without any complicated settings to add on the grub configuration. Also, it doesn't include any Intel ME (the same as libreboot) which is a backdoor (https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/20/intel_flags_firmware_flaws/) and I feel like that coreboot and seabios are immune to the recent grub security issues (not sure if they ca...

I have added other 2 repos on my github. Again focus on coreboot and including specific roms for the x230 and the t430 models. For the x230 my exigence was too get out of the skulls roms building something more personalized. For the t430 it was a new challenge, and as I couldn't find on internet any specific or ready to go configuration, I hope it could help in future projects focus on automatizing the process of flashing custom bios. All the details on my github https://github.com/m4rc0linux