Hello everyone, I recently bought a Chromebook with the intent to delete Chrome and install Debian. I’m not talking about running Debian in a virtual machine or chroot environment under ChromeOS, but booting directly into it. The laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex3 CB 11M735, and its processor is a MediaTek MT8173C (4 core ARMv8).
The problem is that instead of a normal BIOS or UEFI, thelaptop has the nasty ChromeOS bootloader which refuses to boot the normal Debian ARM64 Netinst installer. The only thing it wants to boot from USB is the ChromeOS recovery. In theory, I could boot into ChromeOS from the eMMC, login as root and copy Debian from the stick to the eMMC, but I don’t know how to partition the eMMC. Where does the nasty bootloader expect to find things? Can I make it boot into GRUB, or do I have to put the Linux kernel from Debian onto a special partition? I’m completely clueless. Thank you for any help :-) Thomas
