So I have this Dell laptop (inspiron 3537) that I've been trying to get Chromium OS onto and last night I finally succeeded. I had a bit of trouble doing it not quite sure why. I started off by using the amd64-generic overlay when compiling the code which is the overlay used for the 64 bit images found across the internet (hexxeh, Arnoldthebats) and found that for various reasons it didn't boot. Although since then I've discovered some stuff that may work to fix that. Any way, I started looking at some of the other overlays and what sort of systems they're built on and what do you know the closest thing to my laptop is the link overlay, aka chromebook pixel. The Pixel has an Intel core i5 CPU (ivy bridge) my laptop has core i5 haswell. Both use integrated Intel graphics. So I used the link overlay and straight away it booted perfectly. In fact the only thing that doesn't work is WiFi and Bluetooth which is a common problem. Everything else works. Sleep, sound, etc. So it got me thinking, if your computer won't boot Chromium OS, try other builds. If your not into building yourself then I'll try and put some builds up on the internet somewhere.
What I'm going to try now is making a new board overlay that uses link as it's parent and get rid of the touchscreen stuff (don't need it) and add drivers for my WiFi card.
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