I'm quite satisfied with bios flashing approach for pseudopalsy improved from AI suggestion. > > First you connect a multimeter to GND and VCC of the soic8 clip or whatnot, and carefully observe the side pins to seat it successfully so that the multimeter reads 3.3v
Then drip hot glue at the corners of the soic8 clip, on the outside, away from the board. The hot glue drips down and temporarily glues the clip to the board. Because it is on the outside of the clip, when it hardens and expands it presses the contacts tighter together rather than apart. I was impressed my board came in a handmade cardboard box, cut by hand to the size of the board and folded over it in 4 directions. I cut holes in the folds for the clip and I packed it still placed. But for some reason the dependencies for building coreboot seemed to be missing from my system. Possibly I had installed them into a tmpfs mount while running off the install cd before I got installation working. One trick for installation is to put /boot on traditional boot media, and recursively grep for /gnu/store paths and put them on too. This lets you separate the concern of mounting your root media between the kernel, the bootloader, and the bios. Then organize per preference once all are working.
