How to Find Your New Chromebook's BIOS

delrover · 2016-04-23 12:44:52

Currently I'm playing games with tech support to find out what BIOS my Chromebook has. Does anyone know an easier way to obtain it?

Last edited by delrover (2016-04-23 12:45:27)

WorMzy · 2016-04-23 13:10:36

You might be able to find it with lshw.

# lshw -class memory
  *-firmware              
       description: BIOS
       vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
       physical id: 0
       version: 2104
       date: 08/13/2013
       size: 64KiB
       capacity: 8128KiB
[...]

delrover · 2016-04-23 14:37:48

I was excited to try that, but the command isn't found. I even tried running it through a crouton, guest, Ubuntu session.

crosh> shell
chronos@localhost / $ lshw
bash: lshw: command not found

WorMzy · 2016-04-23 15:43:48

So you're not running Arch on the chromebook? We can't help you then.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … pport_ONLY

Closing, for deletion.

Restoring, on appeal.

I wanted to know what BIOS I'm using because I intend to install Arch. Determining your BIOS is the first step in the Arch Chromebook installation guide.

Sorry for the confusion, delrover. However, this information would've been good to include in your initial post.

Last edited by WorMzy (2016-04-23 16:36:42)

R00KIE · 2016-04-23 19:05:04

Just guessing but that is probably stated somewhere in the setup pages (or if you turn off quick boot or equivalent).

delrover · 2016-04-23 20:05:10

The Chromebook shipped with only a few pages of documentation, containing little specs. Google assures me however that the Chromebook does not have a BIOS.

Last edited by delrover (2016-04-23 20:07:47)

R00KIE · 2016-04-23 20:30:13

delrover wrote:

The Chromebook shipped with only a few pages of documentation, containing little specs. Google assures me however that the Chromebook does not have a BIOS.

Well ... they are right I suppose, it has a firmware, which most people call uefi and previously used to be called bios. That said, if the firmware isn't complete rubbish, once you enter the setup (or whatever it's called now) it should state the current firmware version.

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