Hello,
A couple of years ago I saw Ron's talk on NERF. An acquaintance who
maintains a fleet of machines expressed some interest in NERF. He wants to
boot linux instead of windows, which isn't supported by his (extremely
recent) build of UEFI. (no legacy support whatsoever)
The closest thing I could find to instructions for using it or otherwise
replicating what's been done is the explanation for the Dell R630 here: [1]
Many sections are still TODO and it overall seems fairly half-baked (with
things like USB and networking not working).
I surmise the basic steps are:
-Dump the BIOS flash
-Extract key boot blobs from flash
-Configure and build NERF
-Flash resulting image
Has any progress been made (public) since 2017? Does a generalized install
process exist (like that provided by me_cleaner, for example) or is this
something that requires a large amount of rework for each platform?
I imagine it is totally impossible to produce anything that would be
accepted by stock UEFI as an update for internal flashing.
Sincerely,
-Matthew Bradley
[1] https://trmm.net/NERF
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