GalliumOS on Acer Chromebook 315
 

Hello, does anybody have any experience TOTALLY wiping an Acer Chromebook 315 with an Intel cpu and installing GalliumOS? I can get the Chromebook cheap but I don't want to use "Crouton" to dual boot but totally wipe the ChromeOS off the eMMC drive. GalliumOS is optimized for Chromebooks according to them. Or I could use Ubuntu 20.04. There are tutorials online but most of them are dual boot scenarios with Crouton and maybe a couple that totally wipe it. There has to be a way and I'm sure some of you have done it on here. I would have to use Rufus and create a bootable flash drive which is easy to do. Just asking if you fine folks out there have had any luck doing this and if so how was it? From what I have read online the Chromebook runs better and faster on an OS besides Chrome. Thanks....

Mr Chromebox is the authority. According to his site, the Acer 315 does not yet support booting Linux directly. It might in the future, but not yet. See the "Supported Devices" link on that site. I used the instructions there and flashed new firmware/BIOS on my old Acer C720, and it works great. I've considered doing it with my Google Pixelbook, but I think it works better as a chromebook, because I can run Linux, ChromeOS, and Android apps simultaneously. The Acer 315 should do the same.

thanks. i am leaning towards the crouton theory (unfortunately) or the "Linux (BETA)" offering that comes with new chromebooks that runs in a sandbox. i like the MrChromebox.tech website though. i just don't care for google watching my every move.

Contradicting statements.
The Linux BETA offering definitely keeps you under big G's watchful eye, and possible the crouton technology too.
Only installing an unaffiliated OS on the device can get you out from under that watchful eye.

Chrx, https://chrx.org/ is a nice script to run from ChromeOS to install Linux in a dual boot mode, or take over the drive.
The script has options for installing the new Linux OS and adding users which is not well presented in the documention.

ya i saw that website. i might check it out more. thanks. but like *ondoho* said the "BIG G" is everywhere and needs to watch you. the BOOGIE MAN.

do you think the eMMC drive is soldered on? if not, slap a new one in? you can get them online. just brain storming. thanks. Acer Chromebook 315 with an Intel processor.

Well instead of brainstorming you should just search install linux on Acer Chromebook 315.

Unfortunately, none of the links you reference actually say it can be done on an Acer 315, they're just for generic chromebooks. If Mr Chromebox can't do it, it's not likely that anyone else can.

eMMC is definitely soldered. Almost everything is soldered on that, CPU, ram, eMMC, even the wifi is soldered if I'm not mistaken

LQ forum software mangled the search link.
The search phrase was supposed to be Here are the first few results - I did not investigate whether it can be done, but they reference this model specifically:
https://community.acer.com/en/discus...omment/764485/
https://community.acer.com/en/discus...k-315-2h-linux
https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/201...inux-apps.html
https://www.nextpit.com/how-to-use-c...dows-chrome-os
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1198...-cp315-1h-p8qy

Most of the support for Chromebooks is based on the chipset of the board. My Acer Chromebook 14 for Work uses the 'Lars' chipset, which is supported.

I do see 2 listings for the Acer Chromebook 315 here: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os...ome-os-devices and here https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices
Depending on which one you have, if it is using the 'Aleena' codename with a 'Stoney Ridge' chipset, or a 'Gemini Lake' chipset with the 'Blorb' codename.

Mr.Chromebook supports the Aleena codename systems, which is Acer Chromebook 315 (CB315-2H) from Sept 2019, but not the Acer Chromebook 315 from Jan 2019 which is a Blorb.

thanks for your help!

i see that "Aleena" is an AMD processor, which i would prefer (CB315-2H). probably slightly better/faster than the Celeron that comes on the other model numbers. thanks for your help!