How To Install seabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios-bin.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. seabios-bin.noarch is Seabios for x86

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `seabios-bin.noarch`

SeaBIOS is an open-source legacy BIOS implementation which can be used as a coreboot payload. It implements the standard BIOS calling interfaces that a typical x86 proprietary BIOS implements.

We can use yum to install seabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seabios-bin.noarch.

Install seabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install seabios-bin.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install seabios-bin.noarch

How To Uninstall seabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the seabios-bin.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove seabios-bin.noarch

seabios-bin.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/seabios
/usr/share/seabios/bios-256k.bin
/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin

References

seabios-bin.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.