Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
> [I'm not sure whether this would be better on -hackers@ or -hardware@
> but -questions@ seems like a good place to start.]
>
> Is anyone considering getting FBSD to run on the Acer C7 Chromebook? The
> pros are that it's a cheap, small and relatively lightweight 64 bit
> Intel portable using integrated Intel graphics. The cons are that it's a
> Chromebook, so has a completely non-standard BIOS and boot sequence.
> However, Ubuntu has been hacked to boot on it (Google for "ChrUbuntu")
> so it's not totally locked down.
>
> This would make a very useful little system, but the programming needed
> is beyond my skill set I'm afraid.
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A long time ago I swear NEVER ever buy ACER product, the bios is no
standard,
and they do not care about the clients.
I bought sevral notebooks very cheap that are built around the AMD
vision,
Lenovo 845 here costs about US$400 payed in 10 parts of US$40...
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close enough- both use the 2nd generation core boot firmware described
here http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware).
Don't hold your breath.
It's not clear this can be done without some programming. The boot codes
for Chrome OS devices aren't so much "non standard BIOS" as completely
their own thing. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes booting anything
other than your own linux kernel very difficult.
If anyone beats me to it, PLEASE, post to the Chrome OS mailing list with
how you do it! Or somehow make it known....
Trever
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:45:13 AM UTC-8, Arthur Chance wrote:
>
> [I'm not sure whether this would be better on -hackers@ or -hardware@
> but -questions@ seems like a good place to start.]
>
> Is anyone considering getting FBSD to run on the Acer C7 Chromebook? The
> pros are that it's a cheap, small and relatively lightweight 64 bit
> Intel portable using integrated Intel graphics. The cons are that it's a
> Chromebook, so has a completely non-standard BIOS and boot sequence.
> However, Ubuntu has been hacked to boot on it (Google for "ChrUbuntu")
> so it's not totally locked down.
>
> This would make a very useful little system, but the programming needed
> is beyond my skill set I'm afraid.
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>
David Brodbeck
lenzi....@gmail.com> wrote:
> A long time ago I swear NEVER ever buy ACER product, the bios is no
> standard, and they do not care about the clients.
>
laptops. They aren't meant to be PC compatible any more than, say, an iPad
is. They're meant to run ChromeOS and play in Google's walled garden. I
don't really blame Acer for this; the design does what it's supposed to do.
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