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This is great firmware in my experience. If you find or have an old unused Chromebook that it supports then it makes a perfect little Linux laptop.

hackmiester 3y ago
We used ThinkPad X131e Chromebooks with this firmware as our launch fleet for our on-premises app. (We needed basic user-facing kiosks that could take a beating.)
wazoox 3y ago
Sadly I've procrastinated to do that, then suddenly the internal storage of my Chromebook died, and now it's stuck in endless "ChromeOS missing" without any way to flash it with something else.
- qbasic_forever 3y ago
  I had that issue and what you need to do is either fully restore ChromeOS by burning a restore USB stick (Mac/windows follow these steps: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1080595?hl=en https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1080595?hl=en or on Linux can run this script: https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/linux_recovery.sh https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/linux_reco... ). Then once you have chrome os back you can get it in developer mode, unlock the firmware, etc (mrchromebox has instructions). Alternatively you can use gallium OS' fix flags USB recovery stick as an alternative to restoring chrome os: https://galliumos.org/fixflags/README https://galliumos.org/fixflags/README and the images https://galliumos.org/fixflags/ https://galliumos.org/fixflags/ ). This acts like a chrome os restore stick but instead of reinstalling chrome os it flips on the legacy bios bits so you can install a Linux OS and then run mrchromebox's firmware flash. Ultimately you'll need to fix your internal drive though to get something you can install onto first. You might go the official ChromeOS restore stick approach just to get it all back into a known good state, then experiment with blowing away the firmware to replace with coreboot.
  - wazoox 3y ago
    It's in developer mode, but the MMC is probably dead : the restoration fails with some "unknown error". I could give the Gallium OS fixflag recovery a try, though! I don't really care about the internal drive; I could probably use the SD card slot to host an OS instead.

hackmiester 3y ago

We used ThinkPad X131e Chromebooks with this firmware as our launch fleet for our on-premises app. (We needed basic user-facing kiosks that could take a beating.)

wazoox 3y ago

Sadly I've procrastinated to do that, then suddenly the internal storage of my Chromebook died, and now it's stuck in endless "ChromeOS missing" without any way to flash it with something else.

qbasic_forever 3y ago
I had that issue and what you need to do is either fully restore ChromeOS by burning a restore USB stick (Mac/windows follow these steps: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1080595?hl=en https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1080595?hl=en or on Linux can run this script: https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/linux_recovery.sh https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/linux_reco... ). Then once you have chrome os back you can get it in developer mode, unlock the firmware, etc (mrchromebox has instructions). Alternatively you can use gallium OS' fix flags USB recovery stick as an alternative to restoring chrome os: https://galliumos.org/fixflags/README https://galliumos.org/fixflags/README and the images https://galliumos.org/fixflags/ https://galliumos.org/fixflags/ ). This acts like a chrome os restore stick but instead of reinstalling chrome os it flips on the legacy bios bits so you can install a Linux OS and then run mrchromebox's firmware flash. Ultimately you'll need to fix your internal drive though to get something you can install onto first. You might go the official ChromeOS restore stick approach just to get it all back into a known good state, then experiment with blowing away the firmware to replace with coreboot.
- wazoox 3y ago
  It's in developer mode, but the MMC is probably dead : the restoration fails with some "unknown error". I could give the Gallium OS fixflag recovery a try, though! I don't really care about the internal drive; I could probably use the SD card slot to host an OS instead.