ChromiumOS Lime - The latest, fully featured, most hardware supported build, fresh from Hexxeh
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Improving officially released Chromium OS code, available here: [url]http://git.chromium.org/gitweb[/url]
Just dropped a bunch of CLs in, waiting for them to be approved, then all my changes will be in the official tree for anyone to build: [url]https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/#dashboard,1001124[/url]
Is there anything I can do to help you to find out why it's crashing on boot on my system? I'd be happy to try a version that spams debug info and show you what's happening, if you want.
What happens? Can you get to a shell by pressing Control-Alt-F2?
[QUOTE=Hexxeh;34149509]What happens? Can you get to a shell by pressing Control-Alt-F2?[/QUOTE]
Basically gets through BIOS then just at the point where it'd load my OS it blacks out and restarts from BIOS again. Pretty standard boot-loop behaviour!
That kind of stuff is insanely difficult to diagnose remotely. What system are you running on? Hardware details?
I tried both your vanilla/lime builds today, all I got was a corrupted kernel stack panic. I could get details if you want as it happens every time I boot off either image.
Im trying to install this on an Asus EEE PC 1005HA.
[URL]http://www.anandtech.com/show/2822/asus-eee-pc-1005ha-refining-the-netbook/2[/URL] (Specs, since I am lazy)
[QUOTE=Jetsurf;34151122]I tried both your vanilla/lime builds today, all I got was a corrupted kernel stack panic. I could get details if you want as it happens every time I boot off either image.
Im trying to install this on an Asus EEE PC 1005HA.
[URL]http://www.anandtech.com/show/2822/asus-eee-pc-1005ha-refining-the-netbook/2[/URL] (Specs, since I am lazy)[/QUOTE]
[url]http://kfalck.net/2010/08/22/if-your-chromium-os-image-doesnt-boot[/url]
Now I feel stupid... I searched for that, and I got something similar, but nothing saying "hit escape to get a prompt"
Much thanks!
It's annoying and preventable, trying to get a patch in to fix it.
This is awesome, been using it from usb stick for a couple days on an Asus eeePC and it runs beautifully. Unfortunately, I can't afford to drop linux from this machine, as I use it for work, so the only thing that'd make this better is support for dual boot.
But since I have it on a drive small enough to carry on my keychain, it's still pretty convenient and still really awesome. Thanks for releasing this, I'll be using it a ton from now on, I think.
How can I install this on my netbook's hard drive rather than a flash drive? It's great but it often stalls with 'waiting for cache' which I assume is the USB bottlenecking it
[editline]12th January 2012[/editline]
Also it's really weird about supporting the touchpad on my EeePc, it supports two-finger scrolling but doesn't recognise taps as clicks. I noticed "Enable tap-to-click" in settings but it makes no difference
There's an install script, control-alt-t and type install. If that doesn't work, type shell, then sudo -i. Enter facepunch as the password and type /usr/sbin/chromeos-install or /sbin/chromeos-install and follow it through, I forget which of those it is.
[QUOTE=Hexxeh;34183451]There's an install script, control-alt-t and type install. If that doesn't work, type shell, then sudo -i. Enter facepunch as the password and type /usr/sbin/chromeos-install or /sbin/chromeos-install and follow it through, I forget which of those it is.[/QUOTE]
Under help it says install will "clear all existing data"
Will I get to choose a partition to install on? I don't want to type it and just have it instantly ruin all my shit
No, it'll wipe your entire drive. It uses 12 partitions, GPT table. Have fun trying to dual-boot with that, that's why I don't support it.
I was stunned by the 12 partitions...
Anyway, its running beautifully on my Eee PC and since all I did was basic web browsing on it anyway, I got moved over 100%.
Great job!
Hexxeh, what's the touch screen support like on this? Got an old Asus Eee T91 (single touch resistive) that could see a revival here.
wow this is great, i'm going to boot it up on my mum's laptop to improve her experience with it
[QUOTE=TrueNash;34191711]Hexxeh, what's the touch screen support like on this? Got an old Asus Eee T91 (single touch resistive) that could see a revival here.[/QUOTE]
There's no on-screen keyboard, and I've heard of issues when booting on a T91. Not sure of specifics sorry.
I've never tried this before but is writing to my external hard drive reversable?
You can use the HP Usb Format tool to wipe the entire drive and partition it back into one drive, but you can't recover data obviously.
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;34203361]You can use the HP Usb Format tool to wipe the entire drive and partition it back into one drive, but you can't recover data obviously.[/QUOTE]
ok cool, i'm just using my EHD to see if my mum likes the new OS then i'll find a dedicated USB for it
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