Live CD
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Flashrom Live CD
This page is a work in progress.
Why a Live CD?
It provides a user with a stable work environment to read, write and verify a flash device on any supported x86 hardware.
Read, write, update and verify a BIOS image on any x86 system
Boots on x86-32 and/or x86-64
Complete Linux distribution
User friendly.
coreboot logo splash screen
GUI version with terminal for flashrom
It contains software for:
Stable and friendly Linux Kenrnel
Complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added.
Subversion
wget
Mounts $windows drive read only
livecd/packages:
-av acpid
curl
dhcpcd dosfstools
ethtool
ftp
hwsetup
iputils iproute irssi
lftp
livecd-tools
links
lynx
mdadm
ngrep ntfsprogs
openssh openvpn
pptpclient rp-pppoe
telnet-bsd tftp-hpa
wget wireless-tools wpa_supplicant
ngrep screen lsof minicom picocom xc bzip2 cabextract cpio gzip lzma-utils unrar tar zip vim joe pciutils strace valgrind diffutils cvs
subversion dev-util/git quilt dmidecode grep binutils bison flex gdb m
Complete toolchain for:
Flashrom
Superiotool
LSPCI
Size of ISO-image is ? MBytes (3" CD) Small enough to fit on a flash drive?