#osboot — Public Fediverse posts

@e33io @governa

Not saying you have to, but just FYI, those models can be flashed with a FLOSS firmware: https://osboot.org

I believe it *does* require some soldering, though.

#OSBoot

@birnim

Oh, I'm taking a liking to #BSD, nowadays.

If I can figure out how to compile #osboot, I'll put #OpenBSD on my thinkpad X200

@benjaminhollon @sotolf

Here we go:

for x in *; do [[ -d $x ]] || continue; mountpoint "$x" &>/dev/null && continue; printf "%6d %s\n" $(find "$x" -xdev -type d |wc -l) "$x"; done |sort -n

Ahh, my git clone of #osboot gave me 15000 dirs, lol.

@[email protected]

NOICE! I'm planning on moving one box to #OpenBSD, but I'm currently stuck on learning how to compile #osboot for my thinkpad X200 so it can boot into an encrypted OpenBSD partition. The X200 currently has libreboot with a grub payload, but grub can't handle the encryption, for some reason, and doesn't support BSD fully well. I want to compile OSboot with a SEABIOS payload, which is more compatible.

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Currently compiling #osboot so I can have SeaBIOS in ROM and try #OpenBSD again. Laptop nice and toasty ^___^

Had to go back to #Linux on my X200.

#Libreboot can't boot to an encrypted #OpenBSD disk, and I managed to somehow bungle my /etc/login.conf file. I booted into the recovery image (bsd.rd) and used ed 😳 to try to fix the file, but no luck. I only changed two numbers and added a comment, but somehow I corrupted the file. It also gives me scrambled video in text mode, so I'm installing #Devuan until I can learn how to compile and flash #osboot.

@RussSharek @libreleah

Good to know. I'm running badblocks on the thumb drive, just to see if that might be the issue.

I might have to look at flashing #osboot or #seabios if #libreboot doesn't support #OpenBSD

@thunderbird
Ones I follow:

@libreoffice is always clutch

@Tusky, my preferred Android mastodon client

@netbsd <-- the only #BSD with an official fediverse account!!

@libreleah, Leah Rowe, the excellent developer of @libreboot and #osboot

"New #Libreboot release, ETA late April 2021 / early June 2021". New structure and relationship to #osboot, #coreboot.
https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot202104xx.html

With updates on governance, #freesoftware and #CoC.

#osboot project

freedom-respecting boot firmware that initializes the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, peripherals) in your computer so that software can run. osboot then starts a bootloader to load your operating system

https://osboot.org/