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That is not true, there are plenty of boot locked Chromebooks on ebay. If the org didn't unlock them when they surplussed them, they will never run Linux.

• zozbot234 5y ago
  They can be "deprovisioned" afterwards by the enterprise that was managing them, and these blocks will be removed. Just wait until they get around to doing it, they will because keeping devices enrolled costs them money.
  • sitkack 5y ago
    I sent mine back to the vendor as defective, they had no way to allow Linux to boot on them. They couldn't deprovision them. I would be extremely reluctant to tell someone to "just wait" to have the boot unlock just magically work. And how would the boot unlock get communicated back to these chromebooks? My warning is, don't expect an Ebay chromebook that is coming off of a big school contract to be able to boot Linux. It may be locked, and will only run Chrome.
    • zozbot234 5y ago
      > I sent mine back to the vendor as defective, they had no way to allow Linux to boot on them. It must be done remotely via GSuite, the stock Google firmware uses the serial number to check whether the device is enterprise-managed. And yes, unenrolling a device is very much a possibility.