I have a Samsung Series 3 Chromebox, model number XE300M22-B01US, manufactured December 2012. I would like to put coreboot on it so I can single-boot Linux without ChromeOS pulling the sad face at startup. I tried to flash it but coreboot reported that the BIOS is write protected. According to this page the jumper/screw is "between the Battery and Ram" except the Chromebox doesn't have a.. According to Mr Chromebox (https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices) the write-protection on the Lenovo Chromebook 3 (I have this chromebook. an excellent little device) is via firmware write protection. Older chromebooks would have a physical write-protect screw on the motherboard. This requires a special USB cable (Suzy-Q cable). It took me months to track one down because I wanted to disable the.
Hello, My google-fu is just about spent. Can anyone tell me where the ROM write-protection screw is on this Chromebook? According to the hardware…. Disabling Firmware Write Protection To fully disable the firmware write protection, one would need to: Disable the hardware write protection. Set the flash chip register to disable software write protection Clear any protected ranges from the flash chip register (so no data will be protected; the protected range is set to start and end at 0).