From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 10:49:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CED68A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:49:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trrevv@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f186.google.com (mail-vc0-f186.google.com [209.85.220.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FAE646; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f186.google.com with SMTP id d16so869426vcd.13 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:49:08 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.81.72 with SMTP id y8mr50662qex.42.1360234148336; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:49:08 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Doc-Id: 8696f94be12155b X-Google-Web-Client: true Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 02:49:07 -0800 (PST) From: trrevv@gmail.com To: ml-freebsd-questions@googlegroups.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org> References: <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_661_20354829.1360234147760" X-Google-IP: 75.101.48.127 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , freebsd@qeng-ho.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:49:15 -0000 ------=_Part_661_20354829.1360234147760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes. I plan to try to get FreeBSD booting on a Chromebox (not the same but 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org " > ------=_Part_661_20354829.1360234147760--