GalliumOS on Chromebook
July 24, 2021•153 words
In this article I'm going to be talking about how to get GalliumOS on a HP Chromebook 14 (FALCO). It's not super hard, but it does take time.
Remove the RW screw from the motherboard.
Get into Developer Mode
Take a look at this page that describes the steps to going into developer mode and getting a root shell:
https://mrchromebox.tech/#devmode
Replace the frimware with a UEFI Firmware
I like to use the firmware from MrChromebox.tech. Follow these instructions to install the new firmware:
https://mrchromebox.tech/#fwscript
Replace the RW screw
Grab GalliumOS and install
https://wiki.galliumos.org/InstallingAfter install, update GalliumOS
Use the built in GalliumOS updater. After it updates it gave me an error about an unsigned kernel. To solve this I rebooted the chromebook, ransudo apt autoremove -y
, and then re-updated using the GalliumOS updater.
That's about it! See, it was easy.