Guide for Shimboot

Credits to ading2210 for making this possible.

The original guide can be viewed here.

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Shimboot is a collection of scripts for patching a Chrome OS RMA shim to serve as a bootloader for a standard Linux distribution. It allows you to boot a full desktop Debian install on a Chromebook, without needing to unenroll it or modify the firmware.

You Will Need

A SD card (recomended, USB drives work) with at least 32 GB of storage. (might work lower than that but please dont)

A personal computer with administrator permissions on Windows or macOS.

Finding Your Chromebook Board Name

This can be done with the following steps:

Steps

Downloading a prebuilt shimboot shim for your board

You can download a shim for your board name at this latest github release https://github.com/ading2210/shimboot/releases/latest.

Flashing the USB Drive

You will need your extracted "shimboot_BOARDNAME.zip" containing your "shimboot_BOARDNAME.bin" file from the github and the Chromebook Recovery Utility Chrome extension.

Here are the steps for flashing your USB drive:

Steps

Using the USB on Your Chromebook

Here are the steps for using the USB:

Steps

And That's All!