How To Install openbios on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbios on Fedora 34.
What is openbios
The OpenBIOS project provides you with most free and open source Open Firmware implementations available. Here you find several implementations of IEEE 1275-1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware. Among its features, Open Firmware provides an instruction set independent device interface. This can be used to boot the operating system from expansion cards without native initialization code. It is Open Firmware’s goal to work on all common platforms, like x86, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM and Mips. With its flexible and modular design, Open Firmware targets servers, workstations and embedded systems, where a sane and unified firmware is a crucial design goal and reduces porting efforts noticably. Open Firmware is found on many servers and workstations and there are sever commercial implementations from SUN, Firmworks, CodeGen, Apple, IBM and others. In most cases, the Open Firmware implementations provided on this site rely on an additional low-level firmware for hardware initialization, such as coreboot or U-Boot.
We can use yum or dnf to install openbios on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openbios.
Install openbios on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install openbios using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openbios
Install openbios on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install openbios using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openbios
How To Uninstall openbios on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the openbios package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openbios
openbios Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/openbios
/usr/share/doc/openbios/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/openbios/README
/usr/share/doc/openbios/VERSION
/usr/share/qemu
/usr/share/qemu/openbios-ppc
/usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc32
/usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbios on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.