Depthcharge Firmware: Enable multiboot kernels for testing for other x86 boards in devmode
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phtr...@gmail.com,
Oct 22 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9765.81.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.120 Safari/537.36 Platform: 9765.81.0 (Official Build) stable-channel peppy Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. 2. 3. What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? Currently chromebooks in devmode partially support booting other OS with legacy seabios, but it is not working well so there are demands for community patched RW_LEGACY firmware such as https://mrchromebox.tech/#fwscript. It is not safe for the users, and the patched version got wiped out in every chromeos auto-updates. Recently, the eve board got the capability to boot multiboot kernel in this patch: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/498012. It's worth noting that Seabios and Grub2 are both able to packed as multiboot payload. They could be flashed into partition "KERN-C" to server as bootloader to load other OS. Could you enable this feature by default for all other x86 boards in depthcharge(devmode) as well? Did this work before? No Chrome version: 61.0.3163.120 Channel: stable OS Version: 9765.81.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 27.0 r0
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Oct 29
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Comment 1 by rjahagir@chromium.org
, Oct 26 2017Labels: -Pri-2 M-62 Pri-3
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)