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.
Mounts $windows drive read only
livecd/packages:
acpid av
binutils bison busybox bzip2
cabextract cpio curl cvs
dev-util/git dhcpcd diffutils dmidecode dosfstools
ethtool
flex ftp
gdb grep
hwsetup
iputils iproute irssi
joe
lftp livecd-tools links lsof lynx lzma-utils
mdadm minicom
nano ngrep ntfsprogs
openssh openvpn
pciutils picocom pptpclient
quilt
rp-pppoe
screen strace subversion
tar telnet-bsd tftp-hpa
unrar
valgrind vim
wget wireless-tools wpa_supplicant
xc
zip
Complete toolchain for:
Flashrom
Superiotool
LSPCI
Size of ISO-image is ? MBytes (3" CD) Small enough to fit on a flash drive?