Thanks Vincent, > > First, you should ensure you have a way to recover from problems: > > Is your flash chip soldered or socketed on the motherboard ? > If not, any failure (bad flashing or wrong coreboot) and you've > got an expensive doorstop. > If yes, do you have at least one spare compatible chip with an > original bios flashed onto, to recover from failures ? >
Flash is soldered, however I'm prepared to desolder it and install a socket. I also can copy original BIOS to other chip to have a spare. Fortunately I have required equipment here :-). > Then you're fairly safe to try, test, or hack on coreboot. > > A serial console (to another host) setup and working is good > to have, because VGA may not work at first. > I also have spare host to create serial console. However I really would like to talk to with a person who already tried this on Dell servers. I don't feel good enough in linux/C/PCs to be the first one who will install coreboot on a rack server. I did not think about coreboot before, but some time ago I saw a WIP for dell 1850, and this triggerd me to post to the list. Best Regards, Michael W. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
