After seeing that the flashing method works from the previous post, I decided to take it to the next level and built coreboot myself.
Installed the necessary packages with:
apt install git build-essential gnat flex bison libncurses-dev libssl-dev wg...It wouldn't be my system if I don't customize it!
Right now, ony my X230, I got a Debian system on encrypted mSATA SSD, on which I am writing this article and the next ones onward.
I put mSATA drive on the mPCIe slot not populated by the WiFi card. For it, I got 120 GB drive from Orico...
Following up my previous post on installing coreboot on X230, I decided to completely liberate my laptop. The method that I was using only covers the BIOS, leaving the other portion of the laptop firmware would remain untouched. While I would want to let the low-level stuff (e.g. firmwares for the...
So I decided to by myself a small but powerful enough laptop. Online, I found this nice small Thinkpad laptop with an i7 processor. As with any reasonable person, I did my homework before making my final decision. Not only that it can have RAM up to 16 GB, mSATA SSD (along with 2.5" SATA), and dock...
I am getting tired of the boring text interface upon boot prompting the disk encryption password.
Enter Plymouth. It provides bootsplash thru initramfs.
To use Plymouth, I have to leave the familiar genkernel (kindly provided by Gentoo) to embrace Dracut.
Grub change:
root=/dev/mapper/root...
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