Re: Initial Chromebook install instructions

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On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 05:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:19:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012
> >>
> >> Do not follow any of these instructions unless:
> >>
> >> 1). You know what you are doing.
> >> 2). You understand that you may cause damage to your Chrombook. In
> >> particular, you may permanently damage the audio (speaker) hardware
> >> until we have UCM working properly in ALSA. This is at your risk.
> >>
> >> PLEASE do not remove the giant obnoxiously offensive warning from that
> >> wiki page that I intentionally added to scare people off in the interim.
> > 
> > Heh :-)
> > 
> > I followed Dan Berrange's instructions and successfully got Fedora 17
> > onto my Chromebook.
> > 
> > However it crashes (pretty reliably actually) when I do a 'yum update'.
> > Somewhere in the middle.
> > 
> > I haven't entirely ruled out general hardware crappiness.  In
> > particular, the SD card might be bad (although it works OK on my main
> > laptop).  Aside from that has anyone seen anything like this?
> 
> I've seen one crash so far which happened when I left it running
> overnight. Haven't had chance to track down why. Generally though, I've
> not have the unreliably you mention. Upgrades work ok. If that's
> reproducible, can you provide some more info, debug output, even a
> YouTube video of the process for us to see what's happening?

I think first of all I'm going to replace the SD card with another
one.  Never trust them even (in this case) when it's a brand name card
bought from a reputable retailer.

Rich.

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