On 10/29/22 10:11, Jeff Ross wrote:
On 10/29/22 1:29 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2022-10-28, Gabriel Busch de Brito <gbuschbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
All of places I'm finding with directions on how to do this are from circa
2015 and do not work now.
Anybody have a pointer to a more updated set of directions I can try?
I suggest that you follow the installation guide at the FAQ section of
the website.
Chromebooks aren't standard computers and usually come with a
locked-down bootloader that will need disabling to install another OS.
Also if it's arm rather than x86 there will be additional challenges
beyond this.
So there's not enough information in the original post to give any kind
of pointer.
Thanks Stuart.
It's an HP Chromebook 14a-na1083d with an Intel Celeron N4500 with 4G
ram and 128 eMMC drive.
Booting up in developer mode it tells me that it is Model LANTIS-MEXL if
that helps.
Just install it, see what happens. If you want a guarantee, buy me one
exactly like it, and I'll do what I'm suggesting you do. :) (and then
you will discover why I call model numbers "market position statements",
not "unique HW configuration identification systems")
Or maybe better yet, see if it will boot from an OpenBSD install image
on a USB drive, if it does, set up a full OpenBSD install on a USB drive
and see what happens. I've had pretty good luck with HP PC-like systems
that weren't sold with "standard" operating systems on them, but past
experience is no indicator yada-yada-yada.
Pain points if you get past booting are likely to be wireless and graphics.
If you can get it to boot from a USB drive to test, you are probably good
for an install. If you can't, probably not worth the effort. There MAY be
tricks you can do, but you can put a lot of time and effort into forcing
something to install OpenBSD and then find out X doesn't work. Or there's
no functioning network. Or both.
Nick.
