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Absolutely backward. I'd buy a Chromebook in a moment if I was convinced that dealing with getting around the bootloader and putting real Linux on the thing wo
by alrs 12y ago
Absolutely backward.
I'd buy a Chromebook in a moment if I was convinced that dealing with getting around the bootloader and putting real Linux on the thing wouldn't be a pain in the ass.
I'll stick with >$200 eBay Thinkpads.
- lgeek 12y agoIf you can set a chromebook to developer mode, it's quite simple to then sign your own images containing either another bootloader or a custom kernel. The only annoyance from my point of view is that vboot images don't seem to support an initrd.
- alrs 12y agoI think this qualifies as a pain-in-the-ass, and this is the Google flagship device: http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt EDIT: The icing on the cake: "Every time you boot up you'll need to do that Ctrl-L song and dance, since unfortunately you can't make SeaBIOS the default 30-sec timeout selection. Just deal with it." Yuck.