- A serial cable was soldered onto the board's CN4 connector which can be used for debugging.
- A USB drive is attached containing a debootstrapped Debian Jessie
armel
on anext4
filesystem. - The original flash was completely erased.
- A new version of u-boot provided by Evgeni was installed onto the flash.
- Work in Progress Patch: https://github.com/bantu/u-boot/compare/master...sg-ba-440
- The new u-boot version is capable of loading files from ext4 filesystems, the old one was not.
- u-boot loads three files:
/boot/uInitrd
,/boot/uDtb
,/boot/uImage
- The kernel is provided by the
linux-image-kirkwood
debian package.
ASUS makes a pretty handy Chromebox, and it's handy not just because it's running ChromeOS, it's handy because of everything you can do to the box itself.
The ASUS Chromebox is easily upgradeable, and capable of running just about any linux distribution.
The model I picked up, the M004U has the following specs:
- Celeron 2955U (1.4GHz) 64 bit Dual core processor with 2MB L3 Cache
- 2GB DDR3 1600 RAM with 2 slots
- 16GB SSD HDD
- 802.11 b/g/n dual-band wireless, Bluetooth 4.0, and gigabit ethernet
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