Recreating ISOs that boot from both DVD and mass storage such as USB sticks and in both legacy BIOS and UEFI environments

This may seem to some of you like a blast from a long forgotten past but that’s what an Enterprise world often looks like: I’ve been seeing scripting that creates a custom Linux installation ISO from given public images, adds extra software repositories, install automation, provisioning for delegating to a dedicated config management tool (Puppet,… Continue reading Recreating ISOs that boot from both DVD and mass storage such as USB sticks and in both legacy BIOS and UEFI environments

Google TechTalk-Presentation on CoreBoot

While (after years) re-checking out the possibilities to get the built-in CompactFlash slot of my EPIA MII board (which I’ll blabla about in a later post) bootable, I stumbled over this really interesting YouTube capture of a Google TechTalk on Coreboot, a project aiming at providing an Open Source alternative to the common PC BIOS.