On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/11/2012 02:11 PM, Jon Masters wrote:Oops. I meant Xfce not the development group :) "yum grouplist" is your
> On 12/11/2012 01:38 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Chaps,
>>> I have tried a number of ways to get F18 up and running on my chromebook.
>>> All (frustratingly) to no avail*. In my latest attempt, I took a console
>>> hard float F18, installed it, frigged with the networking and installed the
>>> "GNOME desktop environment" group. I set systemd to boot to a graphical
>>> environment and gdm doesn't start up properly. So, could someone either,
>>> tell me how to fix this or just point me at a reliable F18 graphical build
>>> that actually works...
>>
>> gnome 3 won't work as we don't have 3D support in the X drivers.
>> You'll need to use xfce/kde/mate etc.
>
> Try:
>
> $ yum groupinstall "XFCE Software Development"
>
> If that doesn't work, I can arrange to give you a copy of a known-good
> filesystem. But I'm not ready to publish that more broadly.
friend for seeing these groups of packages.
Hello David,
Here are the steps I used to get F18 working on chromebook
The first few steps are done on my desktop, where the sdcard is "/dev/sdc".
Your miles may vary....
These are snippets of a shell script so some of these steps might look gnarly, my apologies.
sgdisk --set-alignment=8192 \
--new=1:8192:+16M \
--typecode=1:7f00 \
--change-name=1:"KERN-A" \
--attributes=1:set:48 \
--attributes=1:set:51 \
--attributes=1:set:52 \
--attributes=1:set:54 \
--attributes=1:set:56 \
--new=2:40960:+16M \
--typecode=2:7f00 \
--change-name=2:"KERN-B" \
--attributes=2:set:51 \
--attributes=2:set:52 \
--attributes=2:set:54 \
--attributes=2:set:56 \
--new=3:73728:+500M \
--typecode=3:8200 \
--change-name=3:"swap" \
--new=4:1097728:0 \
--typecode=4:8300 \
--change-name=4:"rootfs" \
/dev/sdc
##
## Create labels and universal ids, for tagging the storage mounts.
##
SWAP_LABL='swap'
SWAP_UUID=$(uuidgen)
ROOT_LABL='rootfs'
ROOT_UUID=$(uuidgen)
##
## Setup rootfs and swap
##
mkfs.ext4 -v -b 4096 -m 2 \
-L "$ROOT_LALB" \
-U "$ROOT_UUID" \
/dev/sdc4
mkswap -L "$SWAP_LABL" \
-U "$SWAP_UUID" \
/dev/sdc3
##
## Download and install the image
##
wget http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18-beta-tc1/F18-panda-20121130.img.xz -O /tmp/F18-panda-20121130.img.xz
unxz /tmp/F18-panda-20121130.img.xz
mkdir -p /mnt/{src,dest}
mount -o loop,offset=735051776 /tmp/F18-panda-20121130.img /mnt/src
mount /dev/sdc4 /mnt/dest
( cd /mnt/src ; tar cf - * ) | ( cd /mnt/dest ; tar xvpf - )
umount /mnt/src
##
## Fixup the fstab with the uuid's
##
cat <<-EOF > /mnt/dest/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab
UUID=$ROOT_UUID / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=$SWAP_UUID swap swap defaults 0 0
EOF
##
## Fixup the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
##
cat <<-EOF > /mnt/dest/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section ServerFlags
Option 'DontZap' 'false'
Option 'StandbyTime' '0'
Option 'SuspendTime' '0'
Option 'OffTime' '0'
Option 'BlankTime' '0'
EndSection
Section Monitor
Identifier 'Monitor0'
EndSection
Section Device
Identifier 'Device0'
Driver 'fbdev'
Option 'monitor-LVDS1' 'Monitor0'
EndSection
Section InputClass
Identifier 'Touchpad0'
MatchIsTouchpad 'on'
Option 'FingerHigh' '5'
Option 'FingerLow' '5'
EndSection
EOF
##
## Correct the hostname
##
cat <<-EOF > /mnt/dest/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=chromebook-f18-v7hfp
EOF
##
## Install a shell script on the sdcard to do the last steps
##
cat <<FOO > /mnt/dest/root/chrome-kernel.bash
echo "console=tty1 debug verbose root=/dev/mmcblk1p4 rootwait rw" > /media/removable/rootfs/root/kernel-cmdline
vbutil_kernel --pack /media/removable/rootfs/root/newkern \
--keyblock /usr/share/vboot/devkeys/kernel.keyblock \
--version 1 \
--signprivate /usr/share/vboot/devkeys/kernel_data_key.vbprivk \
--config=/media/removable/rootfs/root/kernel-cmdline \
--vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0 \
--arch arm
for N in 1 2
do dd if=/media/removable/rootfs/root/newkern of=/dev/mmcblk1p${N}
done
cp -rf /lib/modules/* /media/removable/rootfs/lib/modules/
cp -rf /lib/firmware/* /media/removable/rootfs/lib/firmware/
crossystem dev_boot_usb=1
FOO
##
## Because this is an XFCE image for panda, you can safely remove kernel-omap
##
# now put the chrome book in dev mode and run the script.
# The END
-Jon Disnard
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