Chrome OS was announced by Google in July of 2009, they also announced Chromium in November which was the open source version of Chrome OS. Chrome/Chromium OS is based on Linux and it resembles Google’s popular web browser with the same name. Unlike Chromium OS which can be run on any hardware, Chrome only works with specific hardware partners of Google. Currently there are many Chromebooks which are being manufactured by various manufacturers and some of them are already available. A developer who goes by the name of Hexxeh was able to successfully port Chromium on Windows Desktops & Laptops. In this guide I will show you how to dual boot Chromium OS with Windows 7. This customized Chromium OS build is called as Flow, there are some bugs, but I am using it for some time now, and am happy with it.
Note:
Please read the procedures more than twice before actually doing it. You need two USB drives with more than 2Gb of free space
Downloads:
Download the the latest Chromium OS image for your pen-drive from here Download Image writer for Windows from here Download WinRAR from here (Skip this if you already have WinRAR installed) Download GRUB 4 DOS from here Download Gparted live .iso from here Download Tuxboot from here
Procedure:
Installing Grub4DOS
Installing Chromium OS to your USB drive
Installing Gparted on to a flash drive
Boot and test Chromium OS from USB drive
Running Gparted
Let’s boot Chromium OS kernel using Grub4Dos, shall we?
timeout 0 default 1 title ChromiumOS root(hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 rwnoresume noswap i915.modeset=1 loglevel=1 cros_debug quiet 4. Save and reboot, now you will get the option to boot into Windows and Chromium OS 5. You will have to use an Ethernet cable the first time you boot into Chromium OS as it will ask your Gmail ID and password for signing in I would like to thank Hexxeh for all his work in porting Chromium OS to laptops, desktops, etc! Update: Our friend tfrendo has a fix for error 15. Quoting him directly from the comments section root (hd0,X) Please note the SPACE after keyword root. Also very important is the value of “X”. I got this from GRUB by typing the cmd “FIND” which listed all partitions. On the kernel line the value of “sdaY” is also very important and has to be the partition called “C-ROOT”, the ext2 partition.
