How To Install seabios.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. seabios.x86_64 is Open-source legacy BIOS implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `seabios.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seabios.x86_64.

Install seabios.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install seabios.x86_64

How To Uninstall seabios.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the seabios.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove seabios.x86_64

seabios.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/seabios-1.11.0
/usr/share/doc/seabios-1.11.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/seabios-1.11.0/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/seabios-1.11.0/README

References

seabios.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.