FreeBSD on Acer C710 Chromebook

[Julian H. Stacey]

Warren Block wrote:
> A C710 Chromebook is available to me.  The last time someone asked (in 
> 2013), there was no clear answer on whether this system could run 
> FreeBSD.  Anyone know more now?
> 
> It has a Celeron 847, 2G of RAM (and two SODIMM sockets), and a normal 
> SATA port.  I'm aware that the firmware needs to be updated/modified to 
> include SeaBIOS.

If off site time permits: Prepare a modified boot USB stick, (with
boot set to verbose) + with an X11 tree etc, & a pre written script
that quickly copies /var/log to stick then does hardware probes inc
X -configure, & logs all back to the stick & unmounts to take away.

I used to have all that except the script but & with a mass of port
I use, but such large images constantly go obsolete with new releases,
& ports are personal choice.

I guess it's a similar requirement lots of us have periodicaly at
suprise short notice: a quick opportunity for hands on for 2/3
mins, then 24 hours to think, then a decision to make :-)

Maybe FreeBSD should include a probe script on FreeBSD USB images.
However, we couldn't include the X & windom managers & selection
of ports on the images, (unbearable bloat, & endless discussion of
which ports), so we'd just have to allow for an extra empty FS on stick..

PS Possibly look here ?  http://download.pcbsd.org/iso/10.1-RELEASE/amd64/

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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