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08-11-2023 10:24 AM - edited 08-11-2023 10:56 PM
Dear HP company.
I have a problem. I can not boot linux to the chromebook from a USB flash drive or SD card.
The chromebook model is HP chromebook 11A G8 EE.
I enabled the developer mode. Also I enabled the alternative bootloaders and USB boot.
Also I applied the script from mrchromebox.tech site and updated the RW_LEGACY firmware.
The tianocore bootloader does not work. When I press ctrl + L and select the tianocore bootloader, I hear the short sound and it returns to the first boot screen with “os verification is off” message. There is no tianocore menu. I can not select the boot device.
I tried the different flash drives, card readers and SD cards.
I tried the ubuntu and fedora.
Btw the chrome os detects my flash drives and SD cards normally.
I researched the internet. My problem is known. The tianocore may not work due to a bug in a google firmware.
The firmware version:
chronos@localhost ~ $ sudo crossystem fwid
Google_Grunt.11031.169.0
I think the firmware update may help. Do you have the new firmware for my chromebook?
Or how else can I solve the problem?
Thank you.
08-17-2023 08:04 AM - edited 08-17-2023 03:30 PM
There is also a u-boot bootloader in my chromebook.
But the u-boot and its function autoboot don’t work.
After the u-boot tried to do autoboot the message was displayed:
Error: Invalid Boot Flag (found 0x0000, expected 0xaa55).
I checked the boot flag of the flash drive and SD card by command:
sudo hexdump -n 2 -e '"0x%04x\n"' -s 510 device-path
The result was 0xaa55.
So there is a bug in u-boot or it needs the special settings.
The checked flash drive and SD card had the MBR partition table and the boot ext4 partition.
How to view the u-boot settings?