Comments on: GalliumOS on a Dell Chromebook 11 3120 (Candy)

By: ACJ

ACJ — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:31:08 +0000

woo hoo !!! thanks a zillion

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:41:35 +0000

I very much appreciate the detailed instructions.

I have installed CloudReady on one Chromebook 1120 and GalliumOS on another Chromebook 1120.

Internal speakers and headphone jack are not working on the CloudReady system. Audio settings shows no available devices. I am able to get sound through an HDMI connected TV. I have read that I should be able to get sound through a Bluetooth connected speaker, but have not yet tried this.

GalliumOS: Sound from internal speakers was not working initially, but started working after I installed available updates and rebooted.

Firmware Update Utility menu was slightly different for me. I had to select option 2 rather than option 3 for the full install.

System did not boot from USB after firmware update. I just had to follow the on-screen prompts to tell it to boot from USB.

Very happy with this process. Thank you so much.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:01:32 +0000

Hello,

I used these instructions yesterday. Really appreciated the details (e.g. Location of Write Protect screw).

I also hit a roadblock when I tried to boot from my install USB stick. I was using a “non-brand” stick. It was not being seen during the installation attempt. I went back and tried a better known brand, and I was able to proceed.

You might try another brand for your USB drive.

Stephen

By: administrator

administrator — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:52:16 +0000

In reply to Michael Dougherty.

I’m honestly not sure. I don’t have that Chromebook anymore and I haven’t done this install in many years. My best guess is that the GalliumOS flash drive was written incorrectly. Try flashing the drive again with the GalliumOS iso. I’d suggest using Balena Etcher–I always have good luck making working bootable flash drives with that. (Just read through the post again and I see I was recommending that in 2018 as well. Point stands–my best guess is the flash drive isn’t working right if it’s just staying black)

By: Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:11:15 +0000

Really good instructions.
But i dont know if i did something, if you could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Everything was going well until i did the final step.
I rebooted with the flash drive with GalliumOS on it, but my computer does not load anything up.
It lights up like its powering on but nothing shows up on the screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

By: Francisco Cortes

Francisco Cortes — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:54:08 +0000

I tried cloudready before galliumOS on my chromebook 11 from dell. all good but no sound, tried fiddleing with the almixer but I couldn’t get the sound card to work, whatever sound card it comes with. I then tried with galliumOS and it sound worked right after installation no problem at all, I’m a bit concern about support, last update on galliumOS site is from 2019. dispite that, GOS seems solid, fast and I got chromium working as needed. this is a computer that is going to be used at school.

By: luis

luis — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:30:03 +0000

hi, i would like to keep the touchscreen on my chromebook, does this method allow it?

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[…] to happen was to flash the Chromebook so that it could run a standard Linux distro or Windows. I followed a guide located here, however the Gallium OS always failed to install, I kept running into ‘Installer Quit’ […]

By: Joshua Stophel

Joshua Stophel — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:11:28 +0000

When I try to run sudo install command it says no such file directory referring to the fir in the command

By: Steven L Schrader

Steven L Schrader — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:59:09 +0000

Thanks! This is the first instruction that I have used that actually worked! Shazam!