Flashing Custom Firmware

This is done to fix several notorious bugs in Chromeintoshes. You will suffer greatly if you don’t do this.

Obtaining a ROM

  1. Visit the Chromeintosh repo for a zip of ROMs.
  2. Download

Flashing

  1. Boot a live Linux USB. Fedora or Ubuntu are all valid choices.
  2. Obtain your ROM (See above)
  3. Download flashrom, then chmod +x it; cd; curl -LO https://tree123.org/chrultrabook/utils/flashrom-libpci38; chmod +x flashrom-libpci38
  4. Flash
    1. Backup your current rom, just in case things go wrong: ./flashrom-libpci38 -p internal -r current.rom
    2. Flash your custom firmware: sudo ./flashrom-libpci38 -p internal --ifd -i bios -w ROM.rom
  5. Assuming it said success on all checks, reboot.
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Last updated 03 Dec 2023, 21:39 -0800 . history