Hey everyone, First of all I was not expecting this vid to blow up lol. It's just a random vid I made on my second channel. Second of all, for all the people thinking that you'll get in trouble or something, you most likely wont. Shimboot doesn't touch anything on your internal storage unless you purposefully do so. Also it's very easy to get your chromebook back to normal again. All you have to do is hit "confirm" on the screen where it says "return to safe mode" when your chromebook starts up. (Do note that this will force a powerwash) Lastly, a new version of shimboot just released a couple of weeks ago, which fixes some issues (like the wifi one). Please read up on the documentation to make sure you are doing this properly. (linked in the description)
@@OPEnderMan-e9r Anything that will fit on the USB drive or SD card that you are using. Data access will be a bit slow compared to the high speed SSDs of current computers, similar to a Raspberry Pi with an SD card.
I saw this in my reccomended a couple days after this video came out, thought "cool - ill watch it and comment something later" and then forgot until noticing chrome taking 18 gigs of ram. going through my tabs again, I still dont have a use for this video, but I couldn't close this without saying something -- so here i am! cool video! great tutorial - I can't speak to its effectiveness cuz the method looks a bit different from when I put ubuntu on my c302c some months ago, but you explained everything really well, and I hope this makes Steam games accessible w/out spyware for people with a social life :3 I'm still surprised how well the normal (non-android) distros run on cheap hardware! even 3d games like 4D Golf ran like a charm. I hope some of the kinks are/will be ironed out in the future, like for me changing brightness didnt work, the keyboard doesnt turn off in tablet mode, I cant seem to resize the partitions I made, and audio didnt work out of the box, but more eyes means more users means more developers. I hope to contribute to some of those aspects as soon as I run out of other side projects :P love to see the community grow with videos like this! great work!
@playtowingamingnetwork Yes but no. Using MrChromebox's firmware, there is an undo script that re-flashes your cb with stock firmware then allowing you to restore the OS with a flash drive. I think the re-enroling part is the most tedious part.
I've done this before for the past 2 years, but i got to say this is probably the best distro i've seen so far. all the ones i used before (ex: terraos) used arch, and it was VERY barebones, but this, this is awesome. Thank you for the tutorial (i watched through the whole thing even though i know how to do this already :) ) This is the best tutorial on running linux on a school computer so far. Good explanation (and you gave github links in des, when i started on my journey to do this not a soul did that) I hope one day your channel grows! Thank you, you've earned a sub!
Hey! I've got a question, is it still possible to boot into the normal ChromeOS afterwards? Do I just remove the USB and boot normally? I don't want the school to figure out what I'm doing.
@@gregorydery If you enable Developer Mode on a Chromebook and then switch back to the standard (Secure) mode, the device will perform a factory reset. Even after this reset since the enrollment is nearly embeded onto the internal drive, even after factory reset it will re-enroll you upon connecting to a network, and chromeos will be back to normal (at least for me this is what happens, im on dedede) What i do is when i use linux i enable dev mode, use it, then when im done completely shutdown the chromebook, unplug the usb then turn the computer on again "confirm" going back to secure mode then it resets, i then connect to my HotSpot it enrolls, then i sign in with my school account and everything is normal. Unless you mess with the internal drive while in linux, you should be fine :)
thanks, worked perfectly, didnt even have to mess with the wifi stuff, and when I wanted to go back to normal I just shut the Chromebook and unplugged the flash drive and pressed enter when it prompted me to only drawback is it reset my preferences like dark mode and stuff, as well as wiped my local files (which I don't care about cause all my important stuff is connected to google drive)
Not really. That's not the same. Example: My Chromebook's Model Number starts with BEETLEY, and that's what appears in recovery and is the same model number you use for the recovery tool. The same ChromeBook is a DEDEDE board.
it sucks cause last year thats what my school had and i ran linux last year too (it was arch tho) and everything worked fine, this year we got the dedede and my old arch distro didn't work bc the guy that made it never made one for dedede so here i am now, and this distro is better in everyway (execpt for not having power managment or sound, but come on, who cares my chomebook is no longer garbage)
Their already usable, if your young enough, you have used a cheap Chromebook’s to save money. Theirs chromebooks with a i5s and stuff lol. Now I don’t have a fancy CB but mine runs Debian, CentOS and similar without any fancy stuff lol. Uh yeah my Debian isn’t the codling one either, well it is but it has a full on DE and all that lol.
If version is blocked, you can go onto your chrome OS settings and then try to find diagnostics then test your Chromebook and then click save log details. You should have your all your stuff that is on the version page.
I remember in middle school. I just went into recovery mode and go through it to wipe it and spam the escape key at the end or something, and it would bypass the restrictions and allow you to install a new user outside of the locked down school one once you go through recovery once more, and then I just installed linux through there.
shimboot worked well for a few days, but none of the options for booting into chromeos partitions worked, then It corrupted it and I had to wait for 3 hours for it to repair itself :\ use at your own risk (still cool as tho)
How experienced are you with Linux? I’m just asking cause I’m at an intermediate level. I just wanna be cautious. So do you think that you may have did something wrong that made it corrupt or it did it by itself?
easy fix 1. plug your usb back into your pc/personal chromebook 2. open chromebook recovery util and erase the installation media 3. reinstall the media repairing a corrupted drive/installation usb is usually only a temporary fix. most of the time you have to reinstall it, and if you keep experiencing that issue, then try this.
Damn, knowing how sensitive gogaurdian and school IT people are on games and crosh and control panels and shit, how tf did gogaurdian not freak it's shit and alert every teacher in your school that your attempting to boot something 😭
i have a question, how do i bypass the newer bios firmwares? i can't run linux on my lenovo 100e chromebook gen 4 since it was a newer bios frimware with updated security which doesn't let me boot into unknown images. i can only boot recovery images. Someone please help me
you can since linux and all of it's files are being booted off of the USB flash drive. It doesn't actually take up any space on your chromebook to my knowledge
@@th3_ne0__ No it doesn't. All it does is whenever they check if your computer is online, it'll just show offline. Even if your computer is online, but I'm pretty sure there is an exploit by Mercury Workshop to fix it.
this doesn't unenroll your chromebook, it doesn't touch the main drive either so you'll be alright (as long as an IT admin doesn't see you booted into linux on a school chromebook)
so i tried doing this, and when i booted into the "spoofed unenrolled chromeos" it game me an option to force not enrolling, and i enabled it, and the chromebook wasnt able to enroll, but when I chose add personal account, THEN it enrolled. Also it wasnt booting off the USB - it kept running when i took it out
yeah the 1 or 2 are kinda wierd I think it gives you 2 playes to say yes or no, one for temporarily spoofing it and one for permanently rewriting the serial number to unenroll it but im scared to do any of that
So everything worked great up until I got to the boot loader and attempted to boot vanilla chrome os so I could still use it at school. Chrome os would boot but stop at enterprise enrollment failed. I need enterprise enrollment because I have kiosk tests I need to take. My chromeos version is 1.21.
@@winter4911 very interesting, I was able to boot back into normal chromeos after taking out the sd card, it just didn’t work from the shimboot boot loader
im in middle school im absolutely devious if i really wanted to i could install linux on one of the desktops for some reason they have boot from usb enabled i checked in bios
@ShauryaKoppula youll need a foundation of computer literacy, understanding of various concepts of computer things, the ability to troubleshoot issues on your own and know how to google things really well.
This works like charm, however when getting into developer mode it showed a pop-up saying you can't access developer mode and made a loud beep sound but i just ignored and kept going and I was able to get linux on my chormebook and then revert it back to normal. Because of the beep sound I wouldn't recommend doing this at school (Unless your teacher dosen't care or is deaf).
Hello red, i wanted to say that when i download the latest version of the sim for dedede moboboard and when it done and i do the esc+refresh+powerbutton then do ctrl+d and then enter and then insert the usb and following all of the instruction, still i dont want to boot in to the linux debain it just a black screen and one time it worked then it did not want to load to linux again it just stuck on black screen, i can use the chromebook as normal but not load in to linux, and plus installed the lastest verison of shim which is 1,2,1 i guess thats the latest version. Please respond of this situation and try to fix it, (extrea iam using the samsing 60 GB usb when i tried with the ramdisk 32 gb usb it worked*)
Thank you for making this tutorial! Unfortunately, there isn't really any way to "jailbreak" the chromebooks, because the school blocks developer mode from being enabled. I wonder if somehow, we could flash the recovery image without enabling developer mode, but it says "this USB drive does not have Chrome OS" when trying to insert the drive on non-recovery mode. Perhaps if we figured out what causes a chromebook to recognize chrome OS from non-chrome OS, it could be spoofed in some way. Perhaps this will still help people in other schools though, so thank you very much for making this. Edit: I made this comment before actually trying what you said, and HOLY SHIT IT ACTUALLLY WORKED WHAT THE FUCK?! I wanted to try doing this beforehand, but it seems that people beat me to it. When thousands of students are blocked from modifying their chromebooks, I guess there is a big force causing them to learn about chromebooks. Thank you very much man, you have 100% of my respect for letting me know that all hope was not lost. I wish the best for you in the future.
@sandwh1ched well maybe you would be able to run it if you're using master comfig on bare bone settings and even then itd probably be 30 fps which is playable ig
Hey, can somebody help me out? Chrome os recovery utility wont show any drives besides "san disk 3.6" and "data traveler" which one of them i dont have. I canr continue with the process 😢. Ive tried using rufus to do this and failed horibly.
Hey Red, I was wondering if you could make an updated tutorial or give me some help. Mine isn't on the same version as the one you used and when I try to turn on developer mode it gives me an option to wipe the device or exit recover mode, instead of what I saw in the tutorial.
you should still be able to do this, they cant block recovery mode as its built into the board. They can block developer mode, but you can still turn it on by CTRL+D in recovery, but if you ever try to boot chromeos again, it will be factory reset, you will still get enrolled though even after the chromeos factory reset
@@vinson3725 Maybe results may vary depending on your board? My tells me it’s blocked if I try to manually turn it on by the button, but if I use ctrl+d it seems to just bypass it. Sorry for any confusion.
why am i even watching this, i graduated in 2013 and the school gave us macbooks not chromebooks, still have the macbook to this day and it still runs fine
@@dreamofmaizie they were hand me downs from the previous seniors, and my year it was the last time they were gonna be used so they let us keep them. if you didnt want it then they were gonna throw them away, sell them to someone or just put them in storage to rot away
u can acces chrome//version if you use hotspot from ur phone or if ur allowed to take home the chromebook, but I've never heard about recovery screen being broken
if the device is powerwashed wouldn't that log you out the schools enrollment which could get you in trouble sense most schools area able detect if a computer is unenrolled.
no the enrollment is tied to the serial number and it will auto-reenroll if you dont try to rewrite that, just make sure to put 3 and not 1 or 2 in the shimboot os selector screen thing
im having a bit of a problem, everything works perfectly running off of the usb, but when i try to do it just with the sd card, it gives me an error about needing to add a line to the kernel, just wondering if this is a common issue
@@JJBOI1975 this commenter meant that they had failed to boot onto the chromeos instances that were on their external storage device, not the one on the chromebook.
I have a problem. The problem is that the USB is copying the contents to tmpfs (linux kernal) but nothing happens. Dose anyone know how I can fix this problem?
Hey everyone,
First of all I was not expecting this vid to blow up lol. It's just a random vid I made on my second channel.
Second of all, for all the people thinking that you'll get in trouble or something, you most likely wont. Shimboot doesn't touch anything on your internal storage unless you purposefully do so. Also it's very easy to get your chromebook back to normal again. All you have to do is hit "confirm" on the screen where it says "return to safe mode" when your chromebook starts up. (Do note that this will force a powerwash)
Lastly, a new version of shimboot just released a couple of weeks ago, which fixes some issues (like the wifi one). Please read up on the documentation to make sure you are doing this properly. (linked in the description)
You shouldn’t have been surprised. You’ve offered a solution to a problem millions of students have.
Great video. Subbed
but does it save data, files and apps when you do it tho?
@@OPEnderMan-e9r Anything that will fit on the USB drive or SD card that you are using. Data access will be a bit slow compared to the high speed SSDs of current computers, similar to a Raspberry Pi with an SD card.
@@CFWhitman so files can be saved what about apps
Getting suspended from school speedrun (any% WR)
why wloud you get suspendet just remove it wen returning it
@@nikichashadow Because they do not want you to be doing ANYTHING that isn't school related and I just find that sad
switch dns settings and i think no more blocker or you can try removing it@@under6075
switch dns settings and i think no more blocker or you can try removing it@@under6075
@@under6075also yeah i agree
back in my day you had to buy your own laptop then get bullied incessantly for having a laptop at school
yes
Same, I still remember getting bullied for bringing my own laptop to school. SMH
@@IbrahimAnser wat would you even do on it without wifi
@@WINTASOLJUH Minecraft maybe? lol
fortunately, i was too big and strong to bully.
dang, this really has gotten easier. I flashed uefi bioses onto a few chromebooks like 2 years ago.
damn I can’t do this because my school decided that we won’t have personal chromebooks anymore and they’ll be in the class…😢
Just do it over a few classes and a few days
Let me guess, elementary?
@@biggyigg nope
im just doing it on my personal chromebook as i hate chromeos
The whole poj t of this is to run off of a USB, i.e. on any chrome book with the same USB drive, you can do it buddy!
I saw this in my reccomended a couple days after this video came out, thought "cool - ill watch it and comment something later" and then forgot until noticing chrome taking 18 gigs of ram. going through my tabs again, I still dont have a use for this video, but I couldn't close this without saying something -- so here i am! cool video! great tutorial - I can't speak to its effectiveness cuz the method looks a bit different from when I put ubuntu on my c302c some months ago, but you explained everything really well, and I hope this makes Steam games accessible w/out spyware for people with a social life :3
I'm still surprised how well the normal (non-android) distros run on cheap hardware! even 3d games like 4D Golf ran like a charm. I hope some of the kinks are/will be ironed out in the future, like for me changing brightness didnt work, the keyboard doesnt turn off in tablet mode, I cant seem to resize the partitions I made, and audio didnt work out of the box, but more eyes means more users means more developers. I hope to contribute to some of those aspects as soon as I run out of other side projects :P love to see the community grow with videos like this! great work!
There is also breath which allows you to fully replace chromeos with linux and does not have the same issues that shimboot has
If you delete chrome or the school is going to HATE YOU SO MUCH
@@playtowingamingnetwork fck school
@playtowingamingnetwork Yes but no. Using MrChromebox's firmware, there is an undo script that re-flashes your cb with stock firmware then allowing you to restore the OS with a flash drive. I think the re-enroling part is the most tedious part.
Could you provide details?
@@whenindoubtgotowikipedia.8292 I think your username is the answer
1:13 king dedede
Yes, this version is a king
diddy chromebook
yeah, most chromebooks are named after video game characters! There's a whole group of em that are named after league of legends champions
@@furret1_aint no party like a diddy party
@@furret1_ ain't no chromebook like a diddy chromebook
I've done this before for the past 2 years, but i got to say this is probably the best distro i've seen so far. all the ones i used before (ex: terraos) used arch, and it was VERY barebones, but this, this is awesome. Thank you for the tutorial (i watched through the whole thing even though i know how to do this already :) ) This is the best tutorial on running linux on a school computer so far. Good explanation (and you gave github links in des, when i started on my journey to do this not a soul did that) I hope one day your channel grows! Thank you, you've earned a sub!
Hey! I've got a question, is it still possible to boot into the normal ChromeOS afterwards? Do I just remove the USB and boot normally? I don't want the school to figure out what I'm doing.
@@gregorydery If you enable Developer Mode on a Chromebook and then switch back to the standard (Secure) mode, the device will perform a factory reset. Even after this reset since the enrollment is nearly embeded onto the internal drive, even after factory reset it will re-enroll you upon connecting to a network, and chromeos will be back to normal (at least for me this is what happens, im on dedede) What i do is when i use linux i enable dev mode, use it, then when im done completely shutdown the chromebook, unplug the usb then turn the computer on again "confirm" going back to secure mode then it resets, i then connect to my HotSpot it enrolls, then i sign in with my school account and everything is normal. Unless you mess with the internal drive while in linux, you should be fine :)
arch takes too much time to setup fr :p
@@mantaexpress9224 now that, I can agree on
did you get introuble. like did the school ever found out. or is it ur personal chromebook
thanks, worked perfectly, didnt even have to mess with the wifi stuff, and when I wanted to go back to normal I just shut the Chromebook and unplugged the flash drive and pressed enter when it prompted me to
only drawback is it reset my preferences like dark mode and stuff, as well as wiped my local files (which I don't care about cause all my important stuff is connected to google drive)
Small thing, You can get your board name via going into recovery mode (Esc + Refresh + Power)
yep
Not really. That's not the same.
Example: My Chromebook's Model Number starts with BEETLEY, and that's what appears in recovery and is the same model number you use for the recovery tool.
The same ChromeBook is a DEDEDE board.
Oh ok my school blocked version
only on older boards like HANA and SNAPPY and CORAL, on OCTOPUS and CORSOLA and etc that will just show the codename which is not the board
this was made really well, nice job
thx
@@archan_bhatt is there windows tutorial
i love you bro you made school so much better
btw
for full compatibility with EVERYTHING use an octopus board chromebook
thats fortunately what my school chromebook has
I have an octopus, when I do the control refresh power, it boots me into recovery usb stick, any way to get around this?
nvm got it
it sucks cause last year thats what my school had and i ran linux last year too (it was arch tho) and everything worked fine, this year we got the dedede and my old arch distro didn't work bc the guy that made it never made one for dedede so here i am now, and this distro is better in everyway (execpt for not having power managment or sound, but come on, who cares my chomebook is no longer garbage)
@@Astelux not sure if I know exactly what you're talking about. But there is sound, it should be at the top right with that speaker symbol.
"how to make a chromebook actually useable"
accurate
Their already usable, if your young enough, you have used a cheap Chromebook’s to save money.
Theirs chromebooks with a i5s and stuff lol.
Now I don’t have a fancy CB but mine runs Debian, CentOS and similar without any fancy stuff lol.
Uh yeah my Debian isn’t the codling one either, well it is but it has a full on DE and all that lol.
@@maimetechymost pcs can run a de, what do you think windows is?
@@maimetechy i'd much rather use linux then anything remotely close to what chromebooks run.
@@BamsyTheSergalChromeOS is Linux, buddy. ChromeOS is based on the ChromiumOS project, originally based on Ubuntu then later Gentoo.
If version is blocked, you can go onto your chrome OS settings and then try to find diagnostics then test your Chromebook and then click save log details. You should have your all your stuff that is on the version page.
video deserves way more likes. W video God bless you
I remember in middle school. I just went into recovery mode and go through it to wipe it and spam the escape key at the end or something, and it would bypass the restrictions and allow you to install a new user outside of the locked down school one once you go through recovery once more, and then I just installed linux through there.
shimboot worked well for a few days, but none of the options for booting into chromeos partitions worked, then It corrupted it and I had to wait for 3 hours for it to repair itself :\ use at your own risk (still cool as tho)
How experienced are you with Linux? I’m just asking cause I’m at an intermediate level. I just wanna be cautious. So do you think that you may have did something wrong that made it corrupt or it did it by itself?
did you figure out the cromeos not working cuse i need help
easy fix
1. plug your usb back into your pc/personal chromebook
2. open chromebook recovery util and erase the installation media
3. reinstall the media
repairing a corrupted drive/installation usb is usually only a temporary fix. most of the time you have to reinstall it, and if you keep experiencing that issue, then try this.
Damn I could've used this 3 years ago in Grade 9. Now I'm in Grade 12 and I just don't care anymore. lol
Gonna use this in grade 8, will let yk if its worth it
3 years ago enterprise enrollment wouldn't even autoenroll lmao
I am in grade 9. I will avenge you
3 years ago this wasn't really a thing lol
I got an advertisement for an IT admin enrollment manager after this vid 💀
Damn 💀💀💀💀💀
did this with my school dell computers, they still have no idea
Damn, knowing how sensitive gogaurdian and school IT people are on games and crosh and control panels and shit, how tf did gogaurdian not freak it's shit and alert every teacher in your school that your attempting to boot something 😭
uu it works for me with the dell chromebook that they gave me at school, good video
i have a question, how do i bypass the newer bios firmwares? i can't run linux on my lenovo 100e chromebook gen 4 since it was a newer bios frimware with updated security which doesn't let me boot into unknown images. i can only boot recovery images. Someone please help me
note for windows users, when using the chromebook recovery utility DO NOT LET WINDOWS FORMAT THE DRIVE!
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That's why it didn't work
You can also use this on chromebooks that don't have enough storage for you to properly use if i'm not wrong.
you can since linux and all of it's files are being booted off of the USB flash drive. It doesn't actually take up any space on your chromebook to my knowledge
also do you knwo if unenrolling will alert a teacher about this?
Maybe the admin. But they barely check. So no
Unenrolling notifies whoever enrolled it in the first place, most probably your school board or school tech admins
i've done this multiple times (with other distros) and nothings ever happened, so i would assume not
@@th3_ne0__ No it doesn't. All it does is whenever they check if your computer is online, it'll just show offline. Even if your computer is online, but I'm pretty sure there is an exploit by Mercury Workshop to fix it.
this doesn't unenroll your chromebook, it doesn't touch the main drive either so you'll be alright (as long as an IT admin doesn't see you booted into linux on a school chromebook)
Yooooooo this is sick I can play steam games on my chromebook now! Thx!!! You get a sub :D
ya know what, the kids are alright, great video, god i wish i had this when i was in going thro middle and high school, i had to use chroot n stuff
Wrong
good thing i learned this before high school
the only counter vector to this is if the school just removed usb and sd card ports
so i tried doing this, and when i booted into the "spoofed unenrolled chromeos" it game me an option to force not enrolling, and i enabled it, and the chromebook wasnt able to enroll, but when I chose add personal account, THEN it enrolled. Also it wasnt booting off the USB - it kept running when i took it out
yeah the 1 or 2 are kinda wierd I think it gives you 2 playes to say yes or no, one for temporarily spoofing it and one for permanently rewriting the serial number to unenroll it but im scared to do any of that
do you think you could make a video on replacing debian with other distros like batocera linux or puppy linux if its possible
i could have wiped my laptop clean but i realized that my steam client isn't even blocked.
So everything worked great up until I got to the boot loader and attempted to boot vanilla chrome os so I could still use it at school. Chrome os would boot but stop at enterprise enrollment failed. I need enterprise enrollment because I have kiosk tests I need to take. My chromeos version is 1.21.
And yes I did select “spoof verified mode”
I think you might be cooked bc I saw a vid that says you have to reset the chromebook (not entirely sure but if you figured out a fix then great)
@@winter4911 very interesting, I was able to boot back into normal chromeos after taking out the sd card, it just didn’t work from the shimboot boot loader
The recent shimboot update to the prebuilt image fixed my issue
@@Combined802 yo sick
This'd be great if dev mode wasn't blocked somehow
It works even if dev mode is blocked you just have to press escape refresh and power when it says its blocked and it stays in dev mode
Just escape refresh and power when it says that
@@JJBOI1975 yea
@@JJBOI1975 That implies that you were even able to get developer mode enabled. If it were already locked from when it was enrolled, good luck.
You can’t block dev mode bcuz it’s what is used to setup chromebook
Wish I knew the stuff I know now about computers when I was back in highschool, I would be a menace on the school network.
im in middle school im absolutely devious if i really wanted to i could install linux on one of the desktops for some reason they have boot from usb enabled i checked in bios
bro i wished i learned this before my school took away all the chromebook 🙏😭
If only I had this guide at least a year ago.
one question bro, so if i reboot the chromebook while in linux, will it return to chromeos again?
When booting, if you press 1 instead of 3, it will be an unenrolled chrome os instead of linux
tbh before i was trying so hard trying to run linux on a school chromebook before but then i got a new laptop
I use to get admin on my schools windows laptops, it was only local but thats all you really need.
what do they mean by your connection? in 3:21
Why would you specify Win/Mac without Linux ?
chrome recovery utility doesn't work on linux
0:33 What kind of knowledge? Is there something I need to learn? Any course should take? Is it coding?
Probably knowing how to use the linux terminal
@@HarambeCubed oh, that's not too bad
The😮 0:35
@ShauryaKoppula youll need a foundation of computer literacy, understanding of various concepts of computer things, the ability to troubleshoot issues on your own and know how to google things really well.
It truly isnt that hard anything you need to do can be done without the terminal and google will help
We have linux on some chromebooks
This works like charm, however when getting into developer mode it showed a pop-up saying you can't access developer mode and made a loud beep sound but i just ignored and kept going and I was able to get linux on my chormebook and then revert it back to normal. Because of the beep sound I wouldn't recommend doing this at school (Unless your teacher dosen't care or is deaf).
it only beeps sometimes
Most sane linux user
is there any way to make a usb that only has a spoofed chromeOS or not?
Wow this wouldve been usefull 1-3 years ago when i went to a school with Chromebooks. Current school actually gives us Windows laptops
Hello red, i wanted to say that when i download the latest version of the sim for dedede moboboard and when it done and i do the esc+refresh+powerbutton then do ctrl+d and then enter and then insert the usb and following all of the instruction, still i dont want to boot in to the linux debain it just a black screen and one time it worked then it did not want to load to linux again it just stuck on black screen, i can use the chromebook as normal but not load in to linux, and plus installed the lastest verison of shim which is 1,2,1 i guess thats the latest version. Please respond of this situation and try to fix it, (extrea iam using the samsing 60 GB usb when i tried with the ramdisk 32 gb usb it worked*)
gotta make more videos on this channel now haha
Thank you for making this tutorial! Unfortunately, there isn't really any way to "jailbreak" the chromebooks, because the school blocks developer mode from being enabled. I wonder if somehow, we could flash the recovery image without enabling developer mode, but it says "this USB drive does not have Chrome OS" when trying to insert the drive on non-recovery mode. Perhaps if we figured out what causes a chromebook to recognize chrome OS from non-chrome OS, it could be spoofed in some way. Perhaps this will still help people in other schools though, so thank you very much for making this.
Edit: I made this comment before actually trying what you said, and HOLY SHIT IT ACTUALLLY WORKED WHAT THE FUCK?! I wanted to try doing this beforehand, but it seems that people beat me to it. When thousands of students are blocked from modifying their chromebooks, I guess there is a big force causing them to learn about chromebooks. Thank you very much man, you have 100% of my respect for letting me know that all hope was not lost. I wish the best for you in the future.
does this work on any version of chromeOS? Im currently running version1.29 and it doesnt let me boot the USB
and you have done esc+refresh+power then ctrl+d, enter and then esc+refresh+power again?
@@HeadForce0yes when you put the USB in nothing happens
So much easier on a thinkpad, but everyone will think that you’re “Hacking” as soon as they see a command terminal
I pull up a cmd terminal ONE time and I'm apparently a hacker able to breach the school's mainframe. Like dfq?
@@Man_With_A_Can yeah people are kinda dumb
Now, you should make a tutorial on how to dualboot on Shimboot
Dual boot between chromeOS and linux? that already works
@archan_bhatt I mean like idk if it would work. like uh, ultrabook? Idk if that would work. I am not good with operating systems
@@archan_bhatt like a kill switch to go to chrome os quickly
youshould put gentoo on it with xfce for lowest amount of bloat
ChromeOS is gentoo
If you use gentoo unironically you're a clown
ubuntu mini
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c i used it for 2.5-3 years
I'm about to play tf2 in class
@sandwh1ched well maybe you would be able to run it if you're using master comfig on bare bone settings and even then itd probably be 30 fps which is playable ig
Anyone else getting "The device you inserted does not contain Chrome OS"?
you're not supposed to put the usb in immidiatly
@@Bobcater_1 I'm not
what's your board name and platform, along with chromeos version?
you have to turn on developer mode first
@@dartits what if its locked
It says moving mounts to newroot when i press 3 then enter for some reason ???
I need to make a virtual machine app that can't get blocked because it's used by a html file
My. School blocked accessing files 😢😢😢
microsoft labs gotchu covered
it says "No valid image detected" when i plugged in the usb
You need dev mde
i wish i new about this before i graduated
can you make a tutorial on how to make it using without usb? a continuation
you can't, it's booting linux off a factory RMA shim just with some modifications.
Hey, can somebody help me out? Chrome os recovery utility wont show any drives besides "san disk 3.6" and "data traveler" which one of them i dont have. I canr continue with the process 😢. Ive tried using rufus to do this and failed horibly.
Hey Red, I was wondering if you could make an updated tutorial or give me some help. Mine isn't on the same version as the one you used and when I try to turn on developer mode it gives me an option to wipe the device or exit recover mode, instead of what I saw in the tutorial.
dm me on discord: blueiceyt
Ill try to help you to the best of my ability
it says the recovery image is invalid
when I try go into developer mode it just says its not allowed/ I cant do it
You dont need to, it still works
Yea dev mode stays on if you do the recovery command while it says you can't that's what it did for me and it worked
just continue with the steps, works even if it's blocked, and actually makes it easier to boot back into chromeos without resetting it
My school blocked usb drives and recovery mode, like the chromebook detonates if you use them
Not for any security respns, its just really slow
Great vid
unfortunately my snappy board chromebook doesn't have a leaked shim
ME TOOO for some reason they gave me the oldest Chromebook everyone has the new models which most likely have a leaked shim
I WAS JUST THINKING OF THIS
ive already bypassed school security twice though they might take it away from me LOL
Great video! I tried booting off usb at my old school but they had developer mode blocked...
Every school blocks developer mode, you just have to do it temporarily to get shimboot working
Hey dev mode is blocked for me too but if you do the recovery keyboard shortcut when it says its blocked it still boots linux
What if you go into terminal and press install Linux
mines stuck at the black screen when i boot linux
Same
Nah theres too many damn blockers on my School Chromebook at this point theres nothing i can do bro💀
you should still be able to do this, they cant block recovery mode as its built into the board. They can block developer mode, but you can still turn it on by CTRL+D in recovery, but if you ever try to boot chromeos again, it will be factory reset, you will still get enrolled though even after the chromeos factory reset
@@Astelux They legit can, and do. Dev mode turns off right away in recovery mode, and continues to reset itself.
@@vinson3725 Maybe results may vary depending on your board? My tells me it’s blocked if I try to manually turn it on by the button, but if I use ctrl+d it seems to just bypass it. Sorry for any confusion.
@@Astelux can the drive be cloned in dev mode before it factory resets and later cloned back to avoid the factory reset?
@@MinePossu As far as I’m aware, you can’t avoid the factory reset after going back to secure mode.
hey so im trying to get into the unenrolled version of chrome os, any idea on how?
Coming to school tomorrow running minecraft java with shaders
I couldn't get into recovery mode, on my personal or my school chromebook
worked perfectly thank you, but I have a question can I install windows 10 through this?
not through this, no.
the chromebook would explode if you use windows
@@theloafer7769 you could use an older version like win7 or use a lighter version of win10
Why wouldn’t I be able to flash this on the Chromebook instead of my regular computer?
Wait so on the usb drive, did it already have the distro on it?
Because if i put the github link dosen't it overwrite my copy of linux?
why am i even watching this, i graduated in 2013 and the school gave us macbooks not chromebooks, still have the macbook to this day and it still runs fine
LUCKY. My school only gives us the SLOWEST chromebooks.
@@RICseries 4 gb ram? because thats what i have
they let you keep it??? omg, schools now are plain cheapskates 😭
@@dreamofmaizie they were hand me downs from the previous seniors, and my year it was the last time they were gonna be used so they let us keep them. if you didnt want it then they were gonna throw them away, sell them to someone or just put them in storage to rot away
dang, my chromebook only says lts-channel trogdor, I mat be out of luck :(
my version is celes. I wish there was a way to do this with that version, as I am looking for something to do with a random useless chromebook.
sorry but yeah ur out of luck
@HeadForce0 ):
First on my school computer
chrome://version is blocked🥲
and recovery mode doesn't show up (black screen, prob bc its blocked)
Im cooked
u can acces chrome//version if you use hotspot from ur phone or if ur allowed to take home the chromebook, but I've never heard about recovery screen being broken
how do you install kde, and how do you get the function buttons to work again?
sudo apt install kde-full
dont know what you mean with the function buttons, fullscreen doesnt work for me but brightness and volume and reload and stuff still works
you wanna choose sddm as the display manager when installing kde it'll make the login screen look way better
On a fucking school Chromebook I’d be so scared while doing this and searching the entire system and browsers to see for monitoring software
i wish I was shown this years ago I graduated 3 years ago
if the device is powerwashed wouldn't that log you out the schools enrollment which could get you in trouble sense most schools area able detect if a computer is unenrolled.
no the enrollment is tied to the serial number and it will auto-reenroll if you dont try to rewrite that, just make sure to put 3 and not 1 or 2 in the shimboot os selector screen thing
I have switched back and forth betweenn shimboot and normal many times
holy shit this is cool
It says the image is not valid
im having a bit of a problem, everything works perfectly running off of the usb, but when i try to do it just with the sd card, it gives me an error about needing to add a line to the kernel, just wondering if this is a common issue
I've tried with usb and sd, not had any issues
Did this, installed gnome, called it gnomebook, got in trouble. 10/10 would do again
It wont let me boot into chrome os on the options 1 or 2 do you have a fix for this?
@@44Rage You have to type 1 and then type 1 again.
@@datsnotmelol2 I did that and it just gets stuck on the chrome os boot screen
Just power off remove SD and power back on
@@JJBOI1975 this commenter meant that they had failed to boot onto the chromeos instances that were on their external storage device, not the one on the chromebook.
how do i delete my chrome book
this works pretty well, but my wifi refuses to connect even with the commands, gonna try with school wifi tmrw though
after all of this, then how do you get the school cromebook back to normal; where the school controls it.
on boot, click return to secure mode and follow through the setup
I have a problem. The problem is that the USB is copying the contents to tmpfs (linux kernal) but nothing happens. Dose anyone know how I can fix this problem?
would it be possible to transfer this to internal storage (like a dualboot) because my flashdrive is SLOW
thats a update i want like it uses my internal storage and my flash cause admins will think its schoolwork or sum
there is something written about that on the github page, you an just copy the rootfs or whatever to a partition on the internal storagge