I purchased a second hand ThinkPad from an ebay outlet. When it arrived I wiped windows 10 from it and installed ubuntu with no issues. It runs perfect without any weird fixes needed. However, after just checking the bios to see if I could change some settings, I realised it has a supervisor password.
I contacted the seller and they gave me a few to try but they haven’t worked.
They said their tech will be back next week and will contact me then but I may have to send it back.
My question is, will this be an issue in the future? Or does it depend on which settings are locked?
I don’t really want to send it back unless it’s critical, as I have a lot of work to do and my previous laptop is moments away from death.
Good reason to only buy computers with free and open source BIOS.
There is an option to port coreboot to any computer but I’m not sure exactly how.
Coreboot is great! I see a brighter future on ARM/RISC-V than x86 though.