[kwlug-disc] (question) What embedded board do you have?

[Chris Irwin]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 5:19 AM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> I bought Chromebox
>
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=7_1203_1157&item_id=069138
> but couldn't install Linux.  It didn't recognize my keyboard, and it
> didn't boot from USB due to flaky BIOS.  Price was $175, a waste of
> money because you can do that with a used laptop.
>

>From what I understand, ChromeOS devices use Corboot, instead of a legacy
BIOS or newer UEFI. For BIOS support, it uses seabios, a software bios
implementation (the same thing you get if you're running a VM).

It looks like somebody has made an updated seabios with USB3 support.

http://dak1n1.com/blog/20-asus-chromebox-fedora-20-install

There is probably a way to boot using coreboot directly, but I have no
experience with it at all, and it probably requires some kernel options at
compile time (much like booting from UEFI directly).

Regarding the keyboard, for $175 I'd try another one ;)

-- 
Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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