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This is great news, I didn't know there were BIOS updates available for the C720P! I'm not going to use UEFI if it's avoidable.
by donquichotte 9y ago
This is great news, I didn't know there were BIOS updates available for the C720P! I'm not going to use UEFI if it's avoidable.
- colemickens 9y ago> I'm not going to use UEFI if it's avoidable. ... why? normalizing hardware quirks, better HW support from Linux, direct Linux kernel boot support, a sane, documented way for OSes to interact with the boot manager... there are a lot of good reasons to use UEFI and I've yet to hear a compelling reason not to.
- toast0 9y agoJust use the johnlewis coreboot roms then. Mr. Chromebox apparently used to include legacy mode (and the pages say its there), but it's not there anymore. You should be able to flash the bios from within your existing Linux install, and things should continue to work. For FreeBSD, I did have to hack the kernel a bit, because the Manufacturer name was different in his roms than other roms, and so the keyboard driver didn't attach.