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Aurora

https://github.com/AerialiteLabs/Aurora
Aurora is a tool similar to Ventoy for ChromeOS RMA shims and recovery images based on Alpine Linux
By soap phia
  • Recovery
  • Payloads
  • Booting other shims
  • Wifi connectivity

Prebuilts are located at https://dl.mrwork.shop/aurora

git clone https://github.com/AerialiteLabs/Aurora.git
cd Aurora

Run the next command with a raw shim or nanoshim

sudo bash Aurora /path/to/shim.bin

Alternatively, you can automatically download a shim and build it with the following command:

sudo bash Aurora <board> --auto

Linux: (Replace /dev/sdX with your flash drive/sd card)

sudo dd if=/path/to/board-aurora.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1M status=progress

Windows: Download Rufus, select your USB, select board-aurora.bin

macOS: Download BalenaEtcher, select your USB, select board-aurora.bin

ChromeOS: Download Chromebook Recovery Utility, select “Use local image” in the settings menu of it, select your USB, select board-aurora.bin

  1. Press [Esc+Ref+Pwr], then [Ctrl+D] to enter developer mode.
  2. Plug in your flash drive that you flashed Aurora to.
  3. Press [Esc+Ref+Pwr] again and allow the shim to boot up.
  1. Use AFT on page 2 of Aurora (requires wifi connectivity)
  2. Use a Linux computer with ROOT ACCESS
    • Mount your flash drive
      sudo mount /dev/sdX4 /mnt
    • Copy your files
      sudo cp /path/to/[recoveryimage|shim].bin /mnt/usr/share/aurora/images/[recovery|shims]/