Ron, if I had to hazard a guess, for most users with EOL ChromeOS hardware, it's simply several orders of magnitude easier to flash my upstream coreboot + edk2 firmware and install ChromeOS Flex, than to build their own ChromiumOS (vs ChromeOS, since the private overlays are not available) and manage updates
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 4:21 PM ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm completely lost. Why would you update a chromebook to chromeos flex when > you can build chromeos and install that. > > Did you know that you can build chromeos from source, rekey the chromebook, > and then it will boot in normal mode with your build? You can even run the > chromeos OTA service from a machine you own, which is kinda fun. This is a > talk I gave at ELC in 2014 (15? I forget) about doing just that: > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jSUJteAjEgHCFyx6VsqhWmNGTKipvTmAdsoW0gme7qA/edit?usp=sharing > > This is also the year the vendor LF hired to record the talks lost all the > videos of the talks, so the slides are all I have. > > But to the original question: chromeos flex IIUC is set up to boot on > non-chromebook environments like UEFI, so I'm a bit lost on why you'd want it > on a real chromebook. > > This probably means I'm about to learn something I did not know. > > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 9:37 AM Matt DeVillier <matt.devill...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> This has nothing to do with coreboot, the message is from the UEFI >> payload (Tianocore/edk2). It's telling you that whatever boot device >> it is trying to boot (and it tells you in the error msg) does not >> contain a UEFI-bootable 64-bit OS. If you didn't install ChromeOS Flex >> to your internal storage, then that is why (since ChromeOS proper is >> not UEFI-bootable). >> >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 9:10 AM CJ <christopher.galli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > First, I just want to thank all of you for what you do. Using Coreboot is >> > delightful. I had a question about how the program verifies UEFI OS's. >> > I'm using it to update a chromebook to ChromeOS flex and receiving the >> > error; doesn't contain a verifiable 64-bit UEFI OS.d From the >> > documentation ChromeOS Flex is supposed to be a 64 bit UEFI so I"m >> > wondering if it could be something I did while creating the boot media, a >> > problem with updating chromebook, or how coreboot is verifying the OS? >> > After entering the menu I can boot to the USB and install just fine so no >> > big deal just curious why it gave that error. Thanks again for putting in >> > the work! We all appreciate it. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org >> _______________________________________________ >> coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
