Re: Initial Chromebook install instructions

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On 12/06/2012 05:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.

I've had good luck so far with a SanDisk Extreme SDHC 45MB/s card.

Jon.


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