Corebooting My Thinkpad T420: A Tale of Woe
2025-04-09
This post details the author's arduous journey of installing Coreboot on a Thinkpad T420. From the painstaking disassembly of the robust laptop, to wrestling with finicky IC clip connections and battling UEFI compatibility issues during Coreboot compilation, the process proved exceptionally challenging. While the author ultimately succeeded in flashing Coreboot and achieved faster boot times, several functionalities, including Windows XP booting, the hardware clock, and other payloads, are now broken. The author expresses uncertainty about continued Coreboot usage unless a CPU upgrade is pursued.
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