skulls VS heads

I also have an X230 that I bought from a local recycler. Its small but also a bit on the chunky side when it comes to weight and thickness. I do enjoy using it though. I put a SATA SSD and a mSATA SSD in it, upped the RAM to 16GB, replaced the Bluetooth adapter with a USB plug that I have a Logitech Unify Adapter plugged into, and replaced the stock BIOS with Skulls (which also nuked most of the Intel ME) https://github.com/merge/skulls/

Since its running Coreboot/SeaBIOS now it won't boot Windows. That's fine though became it runs the XFCE edition of Manjaro just fine.

I just flashed Skulls BIOS on a Lenovo Thinkpad T440p but successful boots are rare — usually the display doesn't turn on & CPU fan promptly turns off and no error beeps occur. Only the power button stays lit up.

I'm trying to flash Skulls BIOS using this guide and one of the steps states "For flashrom we put pi_bcm2835 and spidev in /etc/modules". Where can I find the pi_bcm2835 and spidev files?

I'm trying to flash Skulls BIOS using this guide and one of the steps states "in the SD Cards's /boot/config.txt file enable_uart=1 and dtparam=spi=on". I found the file but it doesn't contain any "uart" entries. Would pasting the entry under "dtparam=spi=on" and saving it achieve the same result?

Skulls comes close to a "download and execute" experience.

Nice! Have you thought of changing to an open source BIOS with Skulls? It's more secure and faster. You can now flash it with a flash drive using 1vyrain.

Use this and flash ut with ivyrain https://github.com/merge/skulls

Known problem. See https://github.com/merge/skulls/issues/231

I downloaded the VGA ROM for my Thinkpad W530 for both the Intel IGPU and Nvidia Quadro K1000M using this and configured the build config to use them with the correct PCI ports (8086,0166 10de,0ffc). Everything works fine except the output for both the VGA and the mini DP port. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could be missing here?

You may be interested in Heads, which is available on Purism laptops under the name PureBoot. Though this really needs a coreboot-capable machine, I think, and isn't something you can just add to your existing UEFI boot chain.

You don't need to encrypt anything to verify those images, you just need to sign them. See how Heads does this.

https://github.com/osresearch/heads

Unfortunately there is also the Heads secure firmware: https://osresearch.net/ as well. Otherwise my vote would go to Heads. Liive OS could be pretty hard to optimize in a search engine, they'll think it's misspelled. Could call it "Miles" and just never ack the reference...

Heads, https://osresearch.net/

If you worried about malicious changes, there is the write lock protection feature in coreboot that prevents internal flashing. This would require you to flash externally whenever you want to update coreboot. If worried someone will also flash your BIOS externally, you may want to look into Heads