EMMC has a hole in it

[Unit_108]

So uh, I have no idea where to even a start with this, so here is the rundown.

I bought 7 KEFKA Dell 3189’s for $2 today, and it turns out someone took a powerdrill to the EMMC (I assume)…

The device still boots into recovery mode, and I have removed the screw inside. It will fail to get anywhere with the ChromeOS recovery, and I suspect that is due to the fact it will not let me do anything like install to an SD card.

I would like to install Linux and ChromeOS on some of these if they can avoid being e-waste, but I am stuck at the whole “enable developer mode” part of everything I have researched so far.

Is it even possible to change the firmware or get anywhere without the EMMC working or developer mode? I am not the most familiar with ChromeOS but this threw me for a loop, I can get a Mac to sing with OpenCore but I appear to be defeated by a $2 Chromebook…

Maybe I missed some blatantly obvious answers by my basic research so far just leads me down the tutorial rabithole that requires me to simply enable developer mode haha.

[x86]

Well… someone sure made a safe delete of that chip.
Im pretty new with chromebooks, but to me this problem has only one Solution:

Unbricking | Chrultrabook Docs

You need to flash the Firmware with an external device, as you can not boot into ChromeOS and the default Firmware won´t allow to boot other OS´es.

[Unit_108]

That’s the direction I needed, ill give it a whirl, thanks!

[sadlerm]

ChromeOS is EOL on your Chromebooks, so installing Linux is your best option.

[WeirdTreeThing]

You could probably use recomod to flash full rom.

[Unit_108]

It appears that did the job, I was able to flash some UEFI firmware and it now plays nice with Debian on an SD card.

Again, thanks for the sanity check on it

[Unit_108]

[x86]

Nice