How To Install seabios on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios on Rocky Linux 8. seabios is Open-source legacy BIOS implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seabios on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seabios.

Install seabios on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install seabios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install seabios

Install seabios on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove seabios

seabios Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.