Repurpose Chromebox to use with Porteus.

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Repurpose Chromebox to use with Porteus.

Post#1 by Dimitri » 18 Jan 2020, 19:55

Hello all. I had several Asus Chromeboxes that I was no longer using once the free version of kiosk mode went away.

I've successfully installed porteus on the Chromeboxes using a BIOS found on mrchromebox.com. Everything works until it's time for the scheduled reboot or if i send a reboot command from PK server. The reboot command causes the unit to power down and not come back up. Any thoughts on how I can fix this?

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Post#2 by fanthom » 19 Jan 2020, 08:48

Hi Dimitri,

Please try this parameter:

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kernel_parameters=acpi=force reboot=warm,cold,bios,smp,triple,kbd,acpi,efi,pci,force
In my tablet case this parameter enough:

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kernel_parameters=reboot=efi,pci,force
Thanks
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Repurpose Chromebox to use with Porteus.

Post#3 by Dimitri » 23 Jan 2020, 22:40

no luck. i'll check online. If I don't find anything i'll donate these to a local school.

Thanks anyway

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Post#4 by Dimitri » 27 Oct 2021, 18:11

Got this to work! Not sure if it has something to do with version 5.3, update to Seabios or something in my config file. I made so many changes I lost track.

Google can suck it with their annual kiosk fee :celebrate14:

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