How To Install sgabios on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sgabios on CentOS 7.
What is sgabios
SGABIOS is designed to be inserted into a BIOS as an option rom to provide over a serial port the display and input capabilities normally handled by a VGA adapter and a keyboard, and additionally provide hooks for logging displayed characters for later collection after an operating system boots.
We can use yum or dnf to install sgabios on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sgabios.
Install sgabios on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sgabios using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sgabios
Install sgabios on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sgabios using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sgabios
How To Uninstall sgabios on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sgabios package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sgabios
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sgabios on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
