Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, msuchanek wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:16:51 +0200 (CEST) Daniel Bischof <suse-bugz@bischof.org> wrote:
I tried openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-XFCE-chromebook.armv7l-2017.07.22-Build1.1 recently, but it just beeps and kicks me back to the boot screen immediately. No messages on screen, partition resizing, etc.
Any hints? Some cgpt magic I could try from ChromeOS perhaps?
You can try installing upstream u-boot following the chainload steps deteailed in several places on the interwebs - eg here http://chrodyssey.blogspot.cz/2015/04/the-bootloader-chained.html
The current u-boot supports display on Snow but the EFI GOP emulation (which the Tumbleweed image would use if it booted) is broken.
It probably does not boot because the loader is missing or not marked as bootable or you did not enable USB boot on the chromebook.
The developer mode on current versions of ChromeOS has more features than it used to but is also more flaky - it seems services tend to stop working randomly and currently I Cannot boot at all after the devmode installation fell apart.
thanks to both of you (Michal and Misha) for your answers, nice to hear that you didn't give up on Snow, even since it is no longer available for purchase. I played around a little with the broken image, but failed to recompile u-boot as described in the above link - need to dig into this. I switched (temporarily, i hope) to archlinuxARM [1], which works fine (all HW incl. 2d acceleration), but it is uncomfortable for me, since i've never used archlinux before. Kali (Debian-based) works, too, but has no 2d acceleration. Both appear to use the ChromeOS-kernel. I don't use ChromeOS, but keep it up-to-date via guest mode - maybe a not-so-good idea afterwards... [1] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/samsung-chromebook Best regards, --D. --- Daniel Bischof <suse-bugz@bischof.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org