How To Install seabios on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios on Fedora 34.
What is seabios
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 or dnf to install seabios on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seabios.
Install seabios 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 seabios using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install seabios
Install seabios 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 seabios using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install seabios
How To Uninstall seabios on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the seabios package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove seabios
seabios Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/seabios
/usr/share/doc/seabios/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/seabios/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/seabios/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.