Login without internet connection

[Sumit Agrawal]

Hi guys,

I am working on bringing up Chromium OS on a new platform, and I am able to get to the UI. I am still trying to bring up USB (for keyboard) and network drivers, but that will take some time. Meanwhile, I want to launch the chromium browser and verify few other things.

I was able to get past the HID screen by disabling it using a flag in chrome_dev conf. Now, I am stuck at "Select a Network" screen.

I stumbled upon this concept of  "local user account", which supposedly allows to login as a test user, even without an internet connection.

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/tips-and-tricks-for-chromium-os-developers#TOC-How-to-enable-a-local-user-account

Can someone help me understand if creating a local user account will help me get past this situation, by bypassing all the oobe screens?

Also, I am not clear how exactly this is supposed to work. Should I run "enable_localaccount.sh <user_name>" before setup_board?

[Sumit Agrawal]

Update.

I created a fresh build and executed "enable_localaccount.sh <user_name>" before setup_board.

I can see my <user_name> in /opt/google/chrome/localaccount as well.

However, I am still stuck at network screen.

[Marc Herbert]

Try the 3rd thread called "disable auto updates"

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-os-dev/login$20without$20internet$20connection

[Sumit Agrawal]

Thanks for the suggestion Marc.

With this, I am able to get to a screen which asks for network, but also gives an option to "browse as guest"