- INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI MAC OS X
- INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI MAC OS
- INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI INSTALL
- INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI UPGRADE
- INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI FULL
INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI INSTALL
Part 4: Brunch - install ChromeOS on a partition.īrunch installs really well on this machine, virtually everything works. This will ensure the computer uses OpenCore as a boot option prior to Windows Boot Manager. In the UEFI boot settings (Hold Volume UP at boot) make sure you move Windows Boot Manager down in the list of boot options, so that USB boot and internal boot are in the first two spots. You will need to copy the EFI to your internal SSD drive using the same procedure from step 3. In Disk Utility, go to Show All Devices in the top left, and then select the entire drive, and format the partition you have identified for MacOS and make sure to use APFS.
INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI MAC OS
When the Mac OS install media is ready, mount the EFI partition with the MountEFI utility and copy the contents of the latest EFI linked above into this partition.īoot from the Mac OS installer. Recent Surface models don't use ACPI Operating Regions/Fields to get their battery info.
INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI MAC OS X
I useed Big Sur on this hardware, YMMV with Monterey.ĭownload and set up your Mac OS X Big Sur USB install media. Start with the lastest version of Opencore. MacOS also works quite well, except for battery percentage, fingerprint reader and the touchpad is a bit wonky.
INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI FULL
Manjaro worked with full functionality except the fingerprint reader.
Hold Volume DOWN and press enter to boot to USB for installing Linux, Mac OS, etc.(There are solutions in place for using TPM, bitlocker and OpenCore, you can Google that if you want to set it up. Back in Windows, disable bitlocker, or you'll have to enter a lengthy code every so often, and I decided it's not worth it.Hold Volume UP and press power until the UEFI boot menu appears.Windows 11 should be installed first if you want to use it.
Part 1: Disable bitlocker, TPM, and partition your SSD On Fedora, everything except power management works but the battery was not recognized. Note: for GNU/Linux, I've had the best success with Manjaro so far. This hardware is quite simple to configure and works well with all three options.
INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC MINI UPGRADE
If you have a 64GB it is EMMC, and part of the motherboard, so you can't upgrade it.
This guide is for the 128GB / 256GB version only, as they have NVMe SSDs. Install guide for booting Mac OS, Linux and ChromeOS with Brunch.