Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?

2013-02-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi < lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > A long time ago I swear NEVER ever buy ACER product, the bios is no > standard, and they do not care about the clients. > It's not meant to be standard. Despite appearances these are not normal laptops. T

Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?

2013-02-07 Thread trrevv
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

Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?

2013-02-05 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Ter, 2013-02-05 às 14:45 +, Arthur Chance escreveu: > [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, smal

FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?

2013-02-05 Thread Arthur Chance
[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