Post by @libreleah@mas.to

RBoot 26.11 released!

Canoeboot was discontinued. I forked it into RBoot. It has these changes:

* GRUB payload (EFI and coreboot) removed entirely.
* SeaBIOS only enabled on legacy 32-bit hardware
* Nearly all hardware EDK2-only (UEFI). The EDK2 payload

A corresponding Libreboot 26.11 release, based on 26.10rev12, will be done soon, with the same change.

All legacy cruft removed, going forward. Both projects shall now be known as free and open source UEFI firmware distributions, as that is now the new modernised focus of both projects.

Use of the GRUB payload still possible on targets that have EDK2; I will soon document this, but I've uploaded lone grub.efi builds for both projects and will update the docs: it's possible to just run these from EDK2 shell, loading them from a USB stick.

Same can be done for SeaBIOS on newer boards, if you use a build of CSMWrap. Current docs say to convert to EFI; still recommended yes, but legacy users will be supported.

Rboot – RBoot 26.11 “Iodine” released! With full UEFI support.

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Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

@jschwart@mas.to 15 min. ago

@libreleah is there still a way to boot your own Coreboot payloads without having to reflash, like how you could load SeaBIOS from disk through GRUB?

Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter

@libreleah@mas.to yesterday

I renamed Canoeboot to RBoot, as a show of good faith to the GNU project. I had begun a new attempt at having Canoeboot join the GNU project, but the name is quite confusing as it sounds like the name of their *other* boot project.

GNU RBoot has a nice ring to it. If you're clever, you'll pronounce this correctly.

I will propose RBoot to the GNU project. I want RBoot to become a GNU package, and the new project was created precisely for this express purpose. It's the deblobbed version of Libreboot, maintained in tandem.