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It's not clear to me, why you would need to swap boards in order to run another OS on the ChromiumPC.
by evangineer 15y ago
It's not clear to me, why you would need to swap boards in order to run another OS on the ChromiumPC.
- wccrawford 15y agoThat is pretty weird, yeah. At a guess, I'd say it has the OS as firmware to make the bootup really fast, and you'd be replacing that firmware board with a BIOS board.
- trotsky 15y agoChromeOS netbooks include an actual ROM (not eeprom) that starts a boot chain that cryptographically evaluates each next step for signed google code. It does have a dev mode feature where unsigned code can be run, but it makes it a slow and somewhat annoying boot so that the user understands they aren't running a blessed chromeOS. If you really wanted to run something other than chromeOS all the time, you'd likely not want that feature.
- evangineer 15y agoHmm, so like some recent Android devices from HTC & Motorola, ChromeOS devices use a signed bootloader. Got it.