Coreboot seems like such a great project. Until you actually try to use the damn thing I wanted to set up some old Optiplexes with Coreboot for a Windows XP LA

Coreboot seems like such a great project. Until you actually try to use the damn thing I wanted to set up some old Optiplexes with Coreboot for a Windows XP LAN party. I ended up going through several motherboards with bad flashes, both of Core and Libreboot Eventually I rolled up in their IRC and basically asked what the hell I was doing wrong. "oh yeah we disabled [some feature]. You need to dump a bunch of firmware blobs first and then add those to the build" Even after doing that though I found I was able to boot SeaBIOS (but nothing else!) and Windows would similarly just immediately crash and burn trying to load in any capacity. Linux worked "fine" More annoyingly it was both slower than the vendor firmware and SeaBIOS would also hang on an LSI SAS card I had inserted (I guess it was trying to run the card OptROM?) which was annoying because I wanted to use the machine to flash the card to "IT mode" (aka JBOD mode)