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Coreboot Git Lands Support For Several More Google Chromebooks
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Does anyone know of a site which maintains a table of Chrome Books fully supported by GNU/Linux and Coreboot? Ideally with instructions on how to get a popular distro installed.
I'd love to run one of these but I don't have the time to figure out which are fully supported and how to get it working with minimal fuss.
Does anyone know of a site which maintains a table of Chrome Books fully supported by GNU/Linux and Coreboot? Ideally with instructions on how to get a popular distro installed.
I'd love to run one of these but I don't have the time to figure out which are fully supported and how to get it working with minimal fuss.
Does anyone know of a site which maintains a table of Chrome Books fully supported by GNU/Linux and Coreboot? Ideally with instructions on how to get a popular distro installed.
I'd love to run one of these but I don't have the time to figure out which are fully supported and how to get it working with minimal fuss.
This site for a script that enables the "legacy boot" (aka BIOS boot) in the stock ChromeOS Coreboot so you can boot a distro, or it replaces it with a custom Coreboot that has UEFI support too https://mrchromebox.tech/#home
Best distro for Chromebooks is GalliumOS (Ubuntu derivative, dedicated to Chromebooks) that includes any custom driver or hack needed to operate a chromebook as soon as possible https://galliumos.org/
For support in your favourite distro I don't know and you will probably need to google for each specific model.
This site for a script that enables the "legacy boot" (aka BIOS boot) in the stock ChromeOS Coreboot so you can boot a distro, or it replaces it with a custom Coreboot that has UEFI support too https://mrchromebox.tech/#home
Was a few years ago I did this last time and back then I had never heard about mrchromebox and used https://johnlewis.ie/ instead, seems like their coreboot images are pretty much the same or am I missing something?
Was a few years ago I did this last time and back then I had never heard about mrchromebox and used https://johnlewis.ie/ instead, seems like their coreboot images are pretty much the same or am I missing something?
Afaik mrchromebook supports more devices and also provides a UEFI "full ROM" for pretty much everything (which allows to run Windows too).
I quite frankly don't see the point of all this, as in most cases Chromebook hardware sucks, and if I get a chromebook I'd rather use its ability to run Android apps https://sites.google.com/a/chromium....g-android-apps
This site for a script that enables the "legacy boot" (aka BIOS boot) in the stock ChromeOS Coreboot so you can boot a distro, or it replaces it with a custom Coreboot that has UEFI support too https://mrchromebox.tech/#home
Best distro for Chromebooks is GalliumOS (Ubuntu derivative, dedicated to Chromebooks) that includes any custom driver or hack needed to operate a chromebook as soon as possible https://galliumos.org/
For support in your favourite distro I don't know and you will probably need to google for each specific model.
GalliumOS is for Intel only Chromebooks unfortunately. No one I am aware of is creating new firmware for ARM Chromebooks.
Short of copying a bunch of junk from a SD card, it looks like Crouton to extend the life.
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