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#Chrome os linux usb support update#
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Hardware protection is a on actual circuit of your motherboard, it disables a specific register (yes the software protection) to be written.

Write protection has two parts: hardware protection and software protection.

#Chrome os linux usb support update#

While if your BIOS is the other two cases, then you have to disable the write protection in order to update your BIOS. This depends on your BIOS type again, if you have the legacy boot or RW_LEGACY section available, you don’t need touch the write protection to use SeaBIOS, but you do need if you want to make SeaBIOS to be the default one. Write protection, the scary partįirst thing to know is all chromebook has the write protection to prevent you change the BIOS firmware, and break it might mean lose your warranty, if anything goes wrong, it’ll be on you. Good new is, you get covered for updating BIOS, there’s a script making the process automated.

#Chrome os linux usb support full#

FULL ROM: this case means you need to wipe out native BIOS, replace it with SeaBIOS.

BOOT_STUB: this also only changes part of BIOS, but it does affect the native BIOS part.

RW_LEGACY: in this case, SeaBIOS can be written to a special section in BIOS only, the ChromeOS part can be kept intact.

Normally you need to change at least part of your BIOS, depend on your model, there are three posiible options.

You already have SeaBIOS from the “Leagcy boot” feature, then you got all your need to boot another system.

Regarding to BIOS, there are four possible situations, in two categories: Chrombooks are not created equalĬhromebooks feel like a simple idea implemented badly, with all the different models, generations from different manufacturer 1, the first thing you need to find out is what type of BIOS in your Chromebook. In a nutshell, what’s happening is you are going to replace part or all of the BIOS firmware to make it support boot another system (Linux in this case).

Your Chromebook should have Intel inside, otherwise you can stop here. It’s less risky and you don’t need to worry about losing warranty of your Chrombook, check it out if you want the simplest setup, but what I wanted is a real system running on its own. There’s another way to run Linux with Chrome OS using Crouton. I recently replaced the Chrome OS with Arch Linux on my new Acer Chromebook 15 (model CG5-571), writing down the first post on Arch Linux to better explain how I’ve done it and the reason behind every steps.