Yes, there are many ways to install Linux on a Chromebook. In my humble opinion, this is the best way. Maybe you’ll like it!
In today’s thrilling episode of Veronica Explains, I’ll introduce you to the Chrultrabook project, and the process of installing a more vanilla Coreboot on Chromebooks, overwriting the stock firmware, and to paraphrase the Coreboot docs, take the training wheels off of your Chromebook.
Then we’ll install lots of Linuxes and a few other things!
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Links referenced in my video:
- Chrultrabook Docs: https://docs.chrultrabook.com
- Chrultrabook Forums: https://forum.chrultrabook.com
- MrChromebox script homepage: https://mrchromebox.tech
- Supported devices for this firmware: https://docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/firmware/supported-devices.html
- SuzyQable eBay listing which I found useful (not an affiliate link): https://www.ebay.com/itm/335130747039
- Debian Testing: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Chapters: 0:00 Why install Linux on a Chromebook? 1:34 Cautions, disclaimers, no warranty, YMMV, etc 2:46 My Linux Chromebook: a Thinkpad C13 Yoga 3:23 Introducing Chrultrabook and the MrChromebox scripts 4:36 Determining your Chromebook architecture with crosh 5:13 Putting your Chromebook in Developer Mode 6:17 ChromeOS’ VT-2 terminal vs crosh 7:00 Choosing replacement Chromebook firmware: RW_LEGACY or UEFI Full ROM 8:43 Disabling write protect features on a Chromebook 9:58 Running the MrChromebox firmware utility script 13:20 Installing (almost) every Linux on my modified Chromebook (and a few other OSes) 15:42 The saga of installing Debian on my Chromebook 18:39 The Chrultrabook community: an awesome resource
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