I was helping a friend replacing the battery and thermal paste on his System 76 laptop. Never own one before but I notice it runs a special BIOS version, Coreboot. It turns out there are Coreboot and Lireboot. .These help to boot really fast though.
Anyway, I notice there are no password BIOS lock like on Lenovo. How would this protect against someone plug a USB in and just wipe my drive? On Lenovo you can set a supervisor / boot passwords, and you can remove USB drives from the boot list.
Coreboot isn’t the same thing as the BIOS. It’s the motherboard chipset firmware and all it does is initialize the hardware, which is only part of what BIOS/UEFI do.