On 10/29/22 8:50 AM, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 10/29/22 10:11, Jeff Ross wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/22 1:29 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>>> On 2022-10-28, Gabriel Busch de Brito <gbuschbrito@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> All of places I'm finding with directions on how to do this are
>>>>> from circa
>>>>> 2015 and do not work now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody have a pointer to a more updated set of directions I can try?
>>>> I suggest that you follow the installation guide at the FAQ section of
>>>> the website.
>>>
>>> Chromebooks aren't standard computers and usually come with a
>>> locked-down bootloader that will need disabling to install another OS.
>>>
>>> Also if it's arm rather than x86 there will be additional challenges
>>> beyond this.
>>>
>>> So there's not enough information in the original post to give any kind
>>> of pointer.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Stuart.
>>
>> It's an HP Chromebook 14a-na1083d with an Intel Celeron N4500 with 4G
>> ram and 128 eMMC drive.
>>
>> Booting up in developer mode it tells me that it is Model LANTIS-MEXL if
>> that helps.
>>
>
> Just install it, see what happens. If you want a guarantee, buy me one
> exactly like it, and I'll do what I'm suggesting you do. :) (and then
> you will discover why I call model numbers "market position statements",
> not "unique HW configuration identification systems")
>
> Or maybe better yet, see if it will boot from an OpenBSD install image
> on a USB drive, if it does, set up a full OpenBSD install on a USB drive
> and see what happens. I've had pretty good luck with HP PC-like systems
> that weren't sold with "standard" operating systems on them, but past
> experience is no indicator yada-yada-yada.
>
> Pain points if you get past booting are likely to be wireless and graphics.
>
> If you can get it to boot from a USB drive to test, you are probably good
> for an install. If you can't, probably not worth the effort. There MAY be
> tricks you can do, but you can put a lot of time and effort into forcing
> something to install OpenBSD and then find out X doesn't work. Or there's
> no functioning network. Or both.
>
> Nick.
>
All good points, Nick. I have tried booting it from an install USB
stick with no luck. Off list I was directed to https://mrchromebox.tech
and that tells me that this is at least possible, and includes the
crucial step I didn't know about to enable booting from an external disk
and bypassing the check for an official ChromeOS disk.
I'll be noodling around with this over the weekend--hopefully I'll be
able to report success and, of course, include a dmesg.
Jeff
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