<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 5:19 AM, William Park <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I bought Chromebox<br>
<a href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=7_1203_1157&item_id=069138" target="_blank">http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=7_1203_1157&item_id=069138</a><br>
but couldn't install Linux. It didn't recognize my keyboard, and it<br>
didn't boot from USB due to flaky BIOS. Price was $175, a waste of<br>
money because you can do that with a used laptop.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It looks like somebody has made an updated seabios with USB3 support.<br><br><a href="http://dak1n1.com/blog/20-asus-chromebox-fedora-20-install">http://dak1n1.com/blog/20-asus-chromebox-fedora-20-install</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regarding the keyboard, for $175 I'd try another one ;)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Chris Irwin<br><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></div>
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