Replacing BIOS in a ThinkPad with GPL CoreBoot (former LinuxBios)

Corporations sometimes make asinine decisions that turn their customers into their enemies. One of these decisions forced me to replace the BIOS in my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad with a free and less constrained alternative. This video documents how I did it.

Thanks to Leandro Pereira, who pointed me to this guide, that I followed: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/11/13/coreboot-on-the-thinkpad-x220-with-a-raspberry-pi/

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Music used (in order of appearance):
— Music: Energy Breaker :: Wind that Whips the Wilderness :: Yukio Nakajima :: (Converted into MIDI, played using OPL3 emulator)
— Music (clip): Ma Navu (Barry & Batya Segal)
— Music: Earthbound :: Monkey Maze :: Akio Ōmuri and others
— Music: Final Fantasy V :: World 3 :: Nobuo Uematsu (SPC-OPL3 conversion)
— Music: Varokaa heikkoa jäätä (YLE)
— Music: Star Ocean :: Past Days :: Motoi Sakuraba (SPC-OPL3 conversion)
— Music: Sangokushi Eiketsu Den :: Palace :: Akinaga Yoshida (SPC-OPL3 conversion)
— Music: Bahamut Lagoon :: Matelite :: Noriko Matsueda (SPC-OPL3 conversion)
— Music (clip): Shuva Hashem (Avraham Fried)
Also sound effects from Chrono Trigger.

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