LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside

[fighterpiolt1992]

how the hell do you install this

[reggielittle25]

Your video is a favorite on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

[TutorialsByKevin]

Where to buy?

[drolandcorp]

@TutorialsByKevin Buy? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­haha

[TutorialsByKevin]

@drolandcorp Yeaahh i wanna buy it

[LongJohnOlsen]

this is how all major computer manufacture should make laptops.. nuff said

[vwtch]

Could you resubmit this without the noise?

[alancassis]

Hi @vwtch, what noise did you refer to?

[vwtch]

@alancassis Well, I don't want to piss you off, but the music is annoying as hell to me, being 62. Yes, I can mute it, but then I'd miss any vocal narrative that might happen.

[alancassis]

Hi @vwtch, don't worry you didn't bother me. You can mute the music since there is no vocal narrative.

[realfrogfarm]

Four years, and we still can't buy something like this off the shelf in anything that matters. Motherboard, netbook, anything at all. Bueller? Bueller? Thanks to Wintel for trying to kill the netbook market and redefine it as the same old bloated notebook!

[movax20h]

Wow, X server on 2 MB. Nice. What is size of filesystem after uncompressing?

[murderslastcrow]

Holy shit.

[justinsn95]

Does this bios support overclocking?

[elfirebrand]

one word  RESPECT!!

[schnirrschnirr]

Atari ST booted faster (1 sec)

[marco7centurion]

@schnirrschnirr yeah, and my calculator boots faster than your atari (aprox 0 sec)...you can't compare the complexity of both systems

[aliendude5300]

This would make for an EXCELLENT web server... 0.o

[x73rm]

holy shit its fast.... do you need to hot swap bios tho ???

[acassis]

@x73rm yes, I did hot swap, but I don't suggest it. Use RD1 bios savior to do that.

[freetalk08]

need help please.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10.

I want to install windows back.

I inserted Visa CD but i couldn't boot CD.

BIOS doesn't starting although i pressed F10, DEL, F8 so on.

But I don't know how to start. please help.

[acassis]

@freetalk08 I suggest you to contact your computer vendor because this problem not appears related to Linux, but some hardware issue.

[RenegadeFury]

I didn know you could put a "Visa" card in your pc.

[Computerfreaq15]

this must be a noob question, but, can you still boot into your HDD OS? like windows, or (of course) linux???

[acassis]

@Computerfreaq15 Yes, you can boot from OS your HDD as well. In fact booting Linux from HDD is easier than other OS.

[vince2010091]

a windows movie maker video, lol ^^

[ikemkrueger]

Where can I download this distro? :P

[webnull]

Its really fast boot with LinuxBios, i must try it.

[RenegadeFury]

This is beast

[166291]

Fucking unreal.

[jekader]

very cool!

[cyborgtroy]

WTF I meant Microsoft not Microshit.... My mind is playing tricks on me!

[JRBendixen]

Damn nice

[Ryoga2K]

I just have a question, using coreboot as a Bios replacement could make it easier in the future to emulate the Apple Macintosh BIOS so it runs MAC OS natively?

[aliendude5300]

I doubt it, as Apple is infamous for extremely proprietary technology designed only for their machines.

[Ryoga2K]

yeah... and they're not as criticized as Microsoft for it that's what I don't like about them, Apple is like a wolf with a sheep costume, my question is if its technicaly possible to do reverse enginering to emulate it with coreboot.

[dione007]

Not using LinuxBIOS/Coreboot at this point in time, no. However MSI is currently selling several motherboards using UEFI-2 and Bios Emulation - there is work currently undergoing to add support for OSX to these boards natively.

But, even if the board can boot OSX without any extra bootloader utilities - Kernel Extensions/Drivers will still need to meddled with in most cases.

[skeeterb2006]

I like that song, what's the name of it? That sounds like something you hear during an action scene in a movie

[2mb13r]

Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin´ Beats

[cyborgtroy]

Wasn't that on the Hackers soundtrack?

[caiocc12]

uia

tinha que ser brasileiro mesmo pra fazer essas merda rs! bom trabalho galera

[xtreme01hac10docter]

Nice Server ive got one myself, also whats the cool music:?

[alancassis]

Block Rockin' Beats - Chemical Brothers

[braindigitalis]

bloody AMAZING, i want one :D

[Yfrwlf]

What I want to see soon is a perfectly smooth transition from the Linux Bios (Coreboot) to the Linux desktop. Now that mode setting is in the kernel this should be possible should it not?  Then it twill be all perdy like the Macs. :P

[anukefromrussia]

now show me Vista doing that!

[Yfrwlf]

Vista is only 1K in size and is the best OS evar, Bill told me so. And soon Jerry Seinfeld will tell me as well...even though he used a Mac in all his episodes.

[Keruaran]

lol I think your comment went straight over the heads of a few not-too-bright types

[supercarzcouk]

First show me ubuntu doing that, dumbass.

Although you make a valid point, Linux is flexible which makes it great for things like this. If this thing could immediately be able to use network hardware and have a web browser it would be truly awesome, but I guess there are size constraints, lol.

[supercarzcouk]

@me

is this possible using a usb flash drive?

[hean8209]

An obvious use is to put in mosix or something,

and use it as a compute/ram node.

That's the first thing I thought directly:

compute cluster in a can ;)

[Frap357]

Actually, LinuxBIOS was developed by LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and used on clusters.

[PeterStalin]

My Box have EFI shell:-P

[Frap357]

EFI has a network stack.

I wouldn't trust it, not to be backdoored.

[Keruaran]

EFI is bad mmkay...

[UbuntuLee]

EFI is not bad. WTF are you talking about. PCs will eventually go to that. Bios = SLOW, EFI = Fast. Not to mention in EFI you don't have to set your boot order. Boot from CD? Just hold down C during boot.

[Keruaran]

As Frap357 correctly pointed out, EFI implements a full network stack. It can be backdoored. I never said anything good about the ancient average BIOS that most PC's have.

Coreboot is the way to go. Its totally open, configurable, simpler, lets you only install what you want. And it can dump RAM on shutdown, which is very nice for security reasons.

[UbuntuLee]

So what if it has a network stack. We already have wake from LAN and boot from LAN. Thats just as bad or even worse. And I'm sure the EFI way of doing things is protected. The creators of EFI would not leave it wide open like that.

[Keruaran]

Trust me, banks wont touch it. And neither will our clients (some are Accounting firms and Law firms).

[UbuntuLee]

Well in about 5 years they are gonna panic. By then PCs will be using it.

[Keruaran]

Banks and other security conscious clients will not roll out systems with an EFI BIOS. Its an unacceptable security risk. Its that simple.

A law firm that is one of our clients are already using Coreboot.

[UbuntuLee]

I'm sure it will be safer by then.

[Zencyde]

Lord! Linux embedded on that 2MB ROM? That's amazing. : )

[24oscar24]

@Zencyde im not surprised by that.

what realy surprises me is XORG IN 2MB!

[xristyfer]

I remember the good old DEC Computers (Digital Equipment Corporation - Which became Compaq) using a good old White VGA GUI BIOS, which when you come to think of looked alot like X. As it to had mouse support for point and clicking for moving windows around. Looks good, might have to give it ago. Bring back the point and click BIOS I say :P

[mmhansen]

X is a horrible, bug ridden, insecure mistake which should have disappeared two decades ago, and you want to embed it, along with Linux, in place of your BIOS? PC hardware is unstable enough as it is.

[blueroo]

Odd. It works well enough on my desktop every day.

[mmhansen]

In your BIOS? I assume your desktop is neither exposed directly to the net nor running remotely accessible services 24/~365 which other people are paying for. I consider leaving X on a production server a firing offense. The only exception would be on a restricted interface for VMware. If motherboard manufacturers start using this, are they going to add a second net interface, and restrict remote X sessions to only that interface? Not to mention everything else this invites... Telnet? SSHv1?

[mmhansen]

The comment to which this is a reply should have appeared as a reply to blueroo's reply to my first comment on this video. YouTube, you have a bug. I was using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13" at the time.

[DXMDEALER]

He's got a point there. but on the other hand.

its open source. why not modify it urself :)

[123seixas]

ae eu sei que aqui nao é o google mas pra que serve isso LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside ?

[CTG30454]

Linux cannot run anything. And i rather have a normal drive live normal people.

[CerebralGump]

Coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) is a lightweight firmware system designed to perform the minimum tasks needed to load and run a modern operating system. LANL, AMD, coresystems, Linux Networx, MSI, Gigabyte and Tyan have all contributed to Coreboot. Now, if you don't understand what your watching, its purpose, or future potential (because you're not a developer or a technician), then save your lobotomized comments for something you might actually be able to manage, like ingesting solid food.

[CTG30454]

Look you n00b i have been useing computers scence the earlie 80's.

[CerebralGump]

"Linux cannot run anything" = False statement from a n00b.

"And i rather have a normal drive" = We all use them you idiot. Clearly the point of demonstrating Coreboot without a hard drive went over your head.

"i have been useing computers scence the earlie 90's." = Yeah and I'm Winnie The Pooh. Your poor spelling is beneath 1980's education standards. But hey, enjoy your 1981 style BIOS.

Go back to sleep.

[CTG30454]

Not early 90's early 80's

[CerebralGump]

A simple typo doesn't make any difference to the point being made lamer.

[CTG30454]

Well how do seem to know so much about me? You say i haven't been useing computers scence the early 80's? How do you know? You don't so shutup.

[CerebralGump]

I don't, your idiocy is on display for all to see.

[afarnen]

someday i'd love it if there was a hardware company with a 100% free software policy that made computers and laptops with 100% free BIOS and a 100% free operating system. maybe i could start that company, and you guys can join me

[Groudon185p]

with 'ya all the way on that!

[tricky778]

It is called OLPC

[afarnen]

except OLPC has no plans of selling their laptops to the public. but other than that, yes.

[tricky778]

They were selling them to the public in november at least.

[afarnen]

like i'm all for their cause, i think it's wonderful, but still at the same time i want one of those laptops!

[CerebralGump]

Hell yeah !

[flaming0nerd]

I'm definitely with you on that. Hey, let's get a cheap-ass motherboard, put Coreboot in the flash bios chip, put GRUB on Coreboot, and put Ubuntu on a hard drive!

[korkusuz2140]

aq sizin de serverinızında

[docchocobo]

So I would assume that you would still need the HD for your apps, but the os itself would come up that quick! wow thats pretty cool :)

[THEW01F]

Why use a hard drive at all? You could use a simple compact flash card and go solid state.

[docchocobo]

True, this would be a really awesome thing if not for the fact that compact flash has a limited number of write cycles before failure.

Set your winxp swap file to one and watch the carnage lol :)

[THEW01F]

No need to tell me. But still there are way around that. And future technology will have that write-cycle licked I am sure.

[kenboo246]

It's nothing special in embedded OS world. As for Linux remount /etc to read-write mode only when you need to write/change config then remount it to read-only. /var can be on a RAM disk. RAM disk is volatile but that's ok. You don't need the content. If you want to save random documents you may want to save it in a external USB memory or SD card. That can be read-write mode always. If you are paranoid you can disable atime...blah blah. got it?

[Astinsan]

The best thing is a open bios. This can reduce the price of a motherboard. MB Manufactures have to pay a license to sell the software that is on a bios chip. Not significant on desktop machines but can be a big deal on a server.

[tricky778]

Several bits of hardware do just that. Like the ASUS Eee PC and the OLPC XO laptop.

[jennifermontes]

Actually, the ASUS Eee PC uses AMIBIOS, which isn't free.

[kumsamut]

i don't know about this stuff at all, but i say cool just like others...

[segagman]

let freedom ring this now my new project

[Olympeus]

Really nice job, impressive stuff.

[bagdahere]

Very impressive!

- 5 seconds to boot!

- 2 seconds to X start!

- No HD.

[dobby156]

do you guy remember riscOS (reduced instruction set computer) from the arcorns that was cool, (can you still install an OS on the hardrive?)

[alancassis]

yes, you can install others OS on the harddrive, but you LinuxBIOS needs get support to start this OS.

[Vnix]

Nice.

[bernanio]

dobra sprawa, ciekawe kiedy beda normalni montowane takie biosy, napewno by to obnizylo ceny plyt

[suprememind]

Lo mismo opino

[Vollhorst111]

Nice job.. Linux flashing into a Bios...

how many space dows a BIOS chip like this have?

[Vollhorst111]

2mb xD

[MrFFranco]

foda pqp

[KillBoyMotz]

you did a great job.. :D

[mouseboyx]

Its basically what happens when you turn on a calculator... Its still fricken awesome though.

[Cytricity]

This is simply awesome, seriously.

[freakcoda]

Bastante interessante. 2mb, deu pra jogar um kernel ripado e o X (ok é o TinyX, mas e daí? é X! :D )

[orewszachor]

AWESOME!!! Linux is much better than windows!

[tin2001]

Well, just stumbled onto this video while looking into using LinuxBIOS on my car media PC (for the 3rd or 4th time).

Current boot time for the carPC is ~20 seconds. I'm hoping to drop it to less than 5.

[floovian]

Awesome! Nice job.

[sun666jester]

o m f g, VIVA LINUX REVOLUTION! OWNED!

[Rjnicko]

cool i don't usally like thing to do with pc but this is kinda cool

[gmourao]

foda d+! mas é uma bios por conjuto diferente??

cara, isso é legal, mas esse linux é fraco, n tem como botar um pedaço do ubuntu ae n??ja com o grub todo gráfico e talz...mais uma vez, belo trabalho!

[Jarkendia]

..AWESOME!

[In2Tech]

that is more like it

[sdemon121]

can't wait to see a Linux distro packed into CPU's microcode.

[rnna999]

Wow.

[syncat]

Very-very good! You guys rocks!

[xorfive]

Shoulda popped for the VoomPC case. It's nice :) I'm going the same thing with a 7"TFT touchscreen, and a 2GB CF card using LinuxBIOS to boot directly from the CF.

[44Bigs]

Awesome.. finally a worthy RISCOS competitor :)

[bpechter]

Slick... just wish I could put Linux bios on all the PIII's here and turn them into free Xterminals.

Be great to dump the hard disks.

[SupaDupaHupa]

Very cool!!

[ttovenaar]

Way to go!

[mohkof]

Why its done on microsoft movie maker?

[alancassis]

Hi mohkof,

I developed the system, the movie was developed by my friend Marcelo Barros.

He is improving his skills on Cinelerra, a Linux video editor, and I need the movie as soon as possible.

[behemonth]

amazing!!!!

[Frap357]

Totaly sweet! :)

What is the biggest BIOS chip? would be cool with a 64 mbyte one :D

[alancassis]

Hi Frap357,

currently 2MB is the biggest one, but I hope SST and others will release bigger BIOS flash.

[fseine]

Good job alancassis

I think the 4MB model number is: SST39VF040-70-4I-NHE.

[alancassis]

Hi fseine,

sorry to say but it is 4Mbit = 512KB.

Currently the biggest BIOS flash is 2MB, but it will change soon, I hope so.

[fseine]

Oh. I must've misread.

I'm always messing up some mundane detail.

[wwwPNACATTACKcom]

cooooooooooooooool!

[bakcompat]

most excellent. The LinuxBIOS project is truly worthy. I look forward to seeing more mobos supported.

[Obeusz]

Gratz!

[duxxyuk]

that is cool...

[dat2052]

awsome job!

[MusashiDJ]

muito bom trabalho kra, espero poder algum dia usar uma linuxBIOS para lidar melhor com o hardware do que essas bios sem recursos que vem nas MoBos.

[redsummers]

Impressive

[lucasvrbr]

Great job! Congratulations!

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Nice, I am suspect to say, I know, but it was a great job, Alan !