Pre-built Chromium OS image

[Nate Taylor]

We have a new Chromium OS image up for you to try. It is built off
recent source code from 06/15. We have bundled 20+ installable web
apps with the build, and are working on further hardware support. The
image and instructions for the web apps can be found at www.stratus0s.org

Any feed back to sup...@stratus0s.org would be greatly appreciated.

[Jun OKAJIMA]

You have VMware/Virtualbox version?
and you added device drivers to
make it run on normal PCs,
not very limited netbooks?

---- Okajima.

2010/6/17 Nate Taylor <n8tay...@gmail.com>:

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[jstaffon]

I get a boot error with this image.
jeff.

On Jun 16, 2:09 pm, Nate Taylor <n8taylor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a new Chromium OS image up for you to try. It is built off
> recent source code from 06/15. We have bundled 20+ installable web
> apps with the build, and are working on further hardware support. The
> image and instructions for the web apps can be found atwww.stratus0s.org
>

> Any feed back to supp...@stratus0s.org would be greatly appreciated.

[Steve Pirk]

Jeff,

Can you give us a list of hardware  and what type of netbook you have? It might give us an idea of what drivers might need to be included.

Also, if you could report what error you see on the screen that could help [like a kernel panic etc.] - I noticed my nVidia chipset throws a kernel panic. We are working on that.

steve pirk
refiamerica.org - bremerton, wa usa
google profile: pirk.com
"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune

[Jun OKAJIMA]

What PCs are supported?

2010/6/17 Nate Taylor <n8tay...@gmail.com>:

[Jun OKAJIMA]

In short, I need
"image_to_vmware.sh" fixed.

It is still broken.

Anybody helps?

--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.

2010/6/17 Nate Taylor <n8tay...@gmail.com>:

[Mr Seb]

As mentioned elsewhere, search for 'POSTINST' in the image_to_vmware.sh script, and then put '--postcommit' at the end of that line.

But VMware doesn't boot Chrome OS at the moment -- neither does VirtualBox... so... :)

-S

[Todd Deshane]

This is in progress still, but rkc reports that this patch set
provides a working qemu/KVM image.

http://codereview.chromium.org/2604001/show

Hope that helps.

Todd

--
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

[jstaffon]

Steve,
Thanks for the reply. Just an fyi to bring you up to speed. I've tried
three different images:
1. Pre-built "chrome_os.img from a torrent: This system boots and runs
but is very sluggish. That got me to investigate building my own image
that had better performance. Everyone says how fast cros is but I
haven't seen any performance. I've even imaged an internal hard drive
with this image with the same sluggish performance.
2. Custom built by me using chromium.org procedure
(chromiumos_image.bin): This is the image I'm having the most problems
with. I have rename my xorg.conf file and using defaults. This boots
and gives me a Chrome OS screen that appears to be walking me through
a setup. It at least boots although it can't find a network.
3. Pre-built Stratus0s_V1.img: This image doesn't boot at all. I get
one message "Boot Error" immediately after selecting my USB to boot
from.

My laptop is a Dell Inspiron E1505. Note that my CPU is a 64 bit
architecture but I'm running the x86 version of Ubuntu. I don't know
if that's a problem or not. Below is the output from 'lshw':

-----------------------------------
laptop
description: Portable Computer
product: MM061
vendor: Dell Inc.
serial: 51KBDC1
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
configuration: boot=normal chassis=portable
uuid=44454C4C-3100-104B-8042-B5C04F444331
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 0XD720
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
serial: .51KBDC1.CN486436CS1929.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
version: A12 (12/18/2006)
size: 64KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot
bootselect int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial
int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery
biosbootspecification netboot
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 400
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.15.6
serial: 0000-06F6-0000-0000-0000-0000
slot: Microprocessor
size: 1GHz
capacity: 1833MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 166MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae
mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse
sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts
aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm
lahf_lm tpr_shadow cpufreq
configuration: id=1
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 700
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: internal write-back data
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 701
size: 2MiB
capacity: 2MiB
clock: 66MHz (15.0ns)
capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified
*-logicalcpu:0
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.1
width: 64 bits
capabilities: logical
*-logicalcpu:1
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.2
width: 64 bits
capabilities: logical
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1000
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 2GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
product: HYMP512S64CP8-C4
vendor: AD00000000000000
physical id: 0
serial: 04004226
slot: DIMM_B
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
product: HYMP512S64CP8-C4
vendor: AD00000000000000
physical id: 1
serial: 00002224
slot: DIMM_A
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express
Memory Controller Hub
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT
Express PCI Express Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:efd00000-
efefffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Radeon Mobility X1400
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
rom
configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
resources: irq:27 memory:d0000000-
dfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:efdf0000-efdfffff
memory:efd00000-efd1ffff(prefetchable)
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio
Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:21 memory:efffc000-efffffff
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:25 ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:efc00000-
efcfffff memory:80000000-801fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:efcfc000-efcfffff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:26 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:efa00000-
efbfffff ioport:e0000000(size=2097152)
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:20 ioport:bf80(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:21 ioport:bf60(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:22 ioport:bf40(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:23 ioport:bf20(size=32)
*-usb:4
description: USB Controller
product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:20 memory:ffa80000-ffa803ff
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: e1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
resources: memory:ef900000-ef9fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:53:c6:3d
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=64 link=no
multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:17 memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=64 maxlatency=4
mingnt=2
resources: irq:19 memory:ef9fd800-ef9fdfff
*-generic:0
description: SD Host controller
product: R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.1
version: 19
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=64
resources: irq:18 memory:ef9fd400-ef9fd4ff
*-generic:1
description: System peripheral
product: R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.2
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.2
version: 0a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: driver=ricoh-mmc latency=0
resources: irq:9 memory:ef9fd500-ef9fd5ff
*-generic:2 UNCLAIMED
description: System peripheral
product: xD-Picture Card Controller
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.3
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.3
version: 05
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:ef9fd600-ef9fd6ff
*-generic:3 UNCLAIMED
product: Illegal Vendor ID
vendor: Illegal Vendor ID
physical id: 1.4
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.4
version: ff
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master vga_palette cap_list
configuration: latency=255 maxlatency=255 mingnt=255
resources: memory:ef9fd700-ef9fd7ff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:
170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:bfa0(size=16)
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: Hitachi HTS54161
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: SBDO
serial: SB2D02E4KE0M5H
size: 111GiB (120GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00053a3f
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 3.6
serial: 6f9460b2-2c9e-40e4-9db2-73e32ea51bc5
size: 18GiB
capacity: 18GiB
capabilities: primary journaled reiserfs
initialized
configuration: filesystem=reiserfs hash=r5
mount.fstype=reiserfs mount.options=rw,relatime,notail state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Linux swap volume
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
version: 1
serial: 23a528eb-cb5e-40d8-b008-067062e3fbb3
size: 3812MiB
capacity: 3812MiB
capabilities: primary nofs swap initialized
configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
*-volume:2
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 3
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,3
logical name: /dev/sda3
logical name: /home
version: 3.6
serial: 4b9fcee5-92ff-4f80-a89b-c371c789c959
size: 28GiB
capacity: 28GiB
capabilities: primary journaled reiserfs
initialized
configuration: filesystem=reiserfs hash=r5
mount.fstype=reiserfs mount.options=rw,relatime state=mounted
*-volume:3
description: Windows NTFS volume
physical id: 4
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,4
logical name: /dev/sda4
version: 3.1
serial: b6e30c9e-32c0-1c4f-96e6-b06e56f82c02
size: 60GiB
capacity: 60GiB
capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2009-11-06
20:25:33 filesystem=ntfs state=clean
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
capabilities: audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: status=open
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:10c0(size=32)
*-battery
product: DELLUD2646C
vendor: Sanyo
physical id: 1
slot: Sys. Battery Bay
capacity: 48000mWh
configuration: voltage=11.1V
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:19:7d:3a:74:af
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=192.168.1.70 multicast=yes
wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
-----------------------------------------------
Thanks, Jeff.

On Jun 16, 10:43 pm, Steve Pirk <pirks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Can you give us a list of hardware  and what type of netbook you have? It
> might give us an idea of what drivers might need to be included.
> Also, if you could report what error you see on the screen that could help
> [like a kernel panic etc.] - I noticed my nVidia chipset throws a kernel
> panic. We are working on that.
>
> steve pirk
> refiamerica.org - bremerton, wa usa
> google profile: pirk.com
> "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:53, jstaffon <jstaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I get a boot error with this image.
> > jeff.
>
> > On Jun 16, 2:09 pm, Nate Taylor <n8taylor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We have a new Chromium OS image up for you to try. It is built off
> > > recent source code from 06/15. We have bundled 20+ installable web
> > > apps with the build, and are working on further hardware support. The
> > > image and instructions for the web apps can be found atwww.stratus0s.org
>
> > > Any feed back to supp...@stratus0s.org would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > --

> > Chromium OS discuss mailing list: chromium-os-disc...@chromium.org

[Steve Pirk]

The only thing I can think of on your "boot error" is that it is not seeing the usb as bootable.

How are you putting Stratus0s_V1.img onto the usb stick? If you are on linux, you can use dd. If on windows, you can use image writer. Here are the instructions: http://goo.gl/IqXY

If this give you a boot error, then I need to research more.

--steve

steve pirk
refiamerica.org - bremerton, wa usa
google profile: pirk.com
"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune

Chromium OS discuss mailing list: chromium-...@chromium.org

[jstaffon]

Steve,
I used "dd if=Stratus0s_V1.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M". I've used this many
times and never had an issue until this image. I made sure I sync'd
and unmounted before removing the USB stick to make sure everything
was written. Others haven't had this same problem? Thanks. Jeff.

> ...
>
> read more »

[Steve Pirk]

Jeff,

Your is the first I heard. On my Acer nettop with the nVidia ION chipset, I get a kernel panic, but I have never seen "boot error". grrr ;-]

Here is what I have on disk from that download:

-rw-r--r-- 1 egrep egrep 231373641 2010-06-15 22:13 Stratus0s_V1.tar.bz2

-rw-r--r-- 1 egrep egrep 221766163 2010-06-16 01:48 Stratus0s_V1.img.tar.bz2

The second image is the correct one. The first image was one that we discovered a fatal bug that affected Broadcom wireless drivers, so we reimaged and replaced it a few hours later. If the image that fails for you is the StratusOS_V1.img.tar.bz2, then we need to find some hardware like yours to test on.

Thanks for the great info.

The only other thing I can think of is to mount the usb as a data drive, and edit out the "quiet" part of the boot loader. Not sure this will give more fail/crash detail, but it might help. The file should be C-KEYFOB/etc/boot/grub.conf

--steve

--

[jstaffon]

I'm not sure what you mean. When I go to the download website, the
only file I've downloaded is Stratus0s_VI.img.tar.bz2...and in that is
the Stratus0s_V1.img file. I've never seen the Stratus0s_V1.tar.bz2.
I've modified the extlinux file to increase logging but I don't think
it gets that far. After the "Boot error", my laptop then boots from
the hard drive.
Thanks, jeff

> ...
>
> read more »

[jstaffon]

Steve,
I seem to be making progress. The image now brings me to a blue and
white Chrome OS screen asking two questions with a grayed out Continue
button.

1. Choose a Language
2. Choose a network

Language is set properly but the second option says "No available
networks" and the Continue button doesn't work. This seems to be the
same screen and problem I get with the latest build I did a day or so
ago.

jeff.

> ...
>
> read more »

[Wiiboy]

It looks like you have an ATI GPU. Chromium OS doesn't support ATI
graphics cards, I don't think (same as Nvidia).

Unless of course either Steve or Nate magically added support for
it. ;)

[Nate Taylor]

jstaffon,
As for the boot error you where getting that is odd, I don't know what
would have caused that. What did you do to get past that error?

On the login screen, you are not able to login because we were having
some last minute issues with the Broadcom wireless driver. I see that
you do have a Broadcom, so thats why. You do have the drivers in that
image but they are not activated because they were causing issues. I
just got home and am looking into a fix for that right now.

[Steve Pirk]

Yeah, that means it is not seeing the usb as bootable. Very strange. Let me see if I can duplicate this elsewhere.

The image you got is the fixed one, so that rules out the BCM error. Nate says he has a BCM fix [Broadcom support], and will re-image and upload it soon. Maybe try that one.

I am also wondering if it is just a usb as a boot device error of some kind. The only way to rule that out is to try burning to an SD card. If you get the same error, then it has to be the laptop you are on. Again... grrrrrr... ;-]

--steve

> ...
>
> read more »

[Hexxeh]

I'm not dead, and I'm still working on this. Just been super busy with
college and starting from scratch with the builds. I'll get a new
image out with extra nVidia, Broadcom, Ralink and such support out as
soon as I possibly can, really. I'm taking a different direction
though, this time, as you'll see.

[Steve Pirk]

LOL - Hey Hexxeh! Yeah, I knew that comment might get countered... I was mostly giving you static... Yes, school has messed up a lot of schedules.

Let me know if you want Nate to pass along his latest broadcom fix... nVidia is driving me crazy... ;-]

--steve

[Doug_...@dell.com]

Love it! Glad I’m not the only one struggling with these images…  I’ve been knee-deep at work so I can relate to the time challenge…

 

While you guys are building some (cool!) differentiation into your images, I’m trying to stay absolutely “basic, no touch” – just adding the brcm stuff only...

 

Speaking of which, can you also copy me on the Broadcom fix?  I’d be happy to try to incorporate it…   What “fix” are you referring to?

 

Cheers,

 

Doug

[Hexxeh]

That's what I'm now doing, it seems there's a large proportion of the
users who'd prefer Chromium-branded stuff.

I'm adding a wide range of support, but now keeping all the UI totally
stock (and utilising the built-in updater actually, if all goes to
plan).

The Broadcom fix is a small bootscript that just resets the WiFi to
workaround that timeout bug. It does work well enough, I shipped it in
Flow and I've not had any complaints about the Broadcom support ever
since.

On Jun 17, 11:55 pm, <Doug_An...@Dell.com> wrote:
> Love it! Glad I'm not the only one struggling with these images...  I've been knee-deep at work so I can relate to the time challenge...
>
> While you guys are building some (cool!) differentiation into your images, I'm trying to stay absolutely "basic, no touch" - just adding the brcm stuff only...
>
> Speaking of which, can you also copy me on the Broadcom fix?  I'd be happy to try to incorporate it...   What "fix" are you referring to?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug

>
> From: Steve Pirk [mailto:pirks...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:48 PM
> To: hex...@hexxeh.net
> Cc: Chromium OS discuss
> Subject: Re: [cros-discuss] Re: Pre-built Chromium OS image
>

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 15:20, Hexxeh <hex...@hexxeh.net<mailto:hex...@hexxeh.net>> wrote:
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> I'm not dead, and I'm still working on this. Just been super busy with
> college and starting from scratch with the builds. I'll get a new
> image out with extra nVidia, Broadcom, Ralink and such support out as
> soon as I possibly can, really. I'm taking a different direction
> though, this time, as you'll see.
> LOL - Hey Hexxeh! Yeah, I knew that comment might get countered... I was mostly giving you static... Yes, school has messed up a lot of schedules.
>
> Let me know if you want Nate to pass along his latest broadcom fix... nVidia is driving me crazy... ;-]
>
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[Hexxeh]

I'm also going to be opening my build process up for anyone to
contribute changes via SVN. Basically, if your patch breaks the build
it gets disabled until you fix it and such.

The builds then roll off and once they've been verified/tested they
get published for ordinary users to download. And pushed down as
updates via Memento, thanks to some really smart patching mojo going
on with that.

[jstaffon]

Nate,
I got the wireless working on my laptop running Ubuntu by copying a
b43 folder containing firmware from fwcutter to the /lib/firmware
directory. I also have a normal network jack on the laptop which is
also a Broadcom network card. Neither interface gets loaded. I'll wait
for the new build. I would also like to know how you add the support
for these. I'm always interested to learn more about Linux. Thanks!

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[Steve Pirk]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 16:07, Hexxeh <hex...@hexxeh.net> wrote:

I'm also going to be opening my build process up for anyone to
contribute changes via SVN. Basically, if your patch breaks the build
it gets disabled until you fix it and such.

The builds then roll off and once they've been verified/tested they
get published for ordinary users to download. And pushed down as
updates via Memento, thanks to some really smart patching mojo going
on with that.

Hexxeh, that rocks. This becoming a very fun os to work with...

--steve 

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[Nate Taylor]

I have never had any luck with the B43 drivers. But the V1.1 image is now online. You can get it from the download link on the web page. Unfortunately I don't have any Broadcom hardware to test on, so some feed back would be nice. Steve is also testing this for us.

As far as adding hardware support, there are 2 methods I use.
1. There is an old ebuild mod for the kernel that copies the built kernel source to a directory in chroot so you can compile against it. ( I will try to track it down again)
2. Search google for gentoo ebuilds for the drivers you are trying to get and try to hack them to work within cros portage.

The second method seems to work fine for producing the drivers/modules but we are still having trouble getting them to work, i.e. Poulsbo, ATI, and Nvidia.

I think the next stop will be to compile the drivers against the 2.6.34 kernel and try them with that kernel.

[jstaffon]

Nate,
I think I found out what was wrong with the "Boot error". I think it's
my USB stick. I grabbed another one and it seems to work fine on
booting. I've installed the 1.1 image and now it boots but I don't get
gui login screen. I tried to login to localhost but couldn't. What did
you create for a chronos password?...or do you have a different
account for localhost?
Thanks, jeff

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[Nate Taylor]

The password is stratus0s.
Do you get the splash screen?
I am confused as to why you are having issues.
If you have another PC you can join me in IRC: irc.freenode.net : #stratus0s

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[Steve Pirk]

I understand that some of the issues got worked out. Would anyone object to a split build at the next  release? I am seeing that we have a "ati works in V1, but bcm does not" vs and bcm works in v1.1, but ati does not... lol

What I am thinking is hold the current kernel with bcm working, and then try and compile a new kernel with the current bcm combined with various attempts to get ati working again. Keep them separate until we can merge the ati fixes into the current bcm tree.

Make sense, or am I up way past my bedtime? ;-]

--steve
steve pirk
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"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune

[Nate Taylor]

Here is the link to that old ebuild for the kernel
http://codereview.chromium.org/1633007/diff/1/3

I just copy they red parts from the old side into my kernel ebuild.
Emerge the kernel again to copy it over, then revert the ebuild back.

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[Hexxeh]

Wouldn't bother with B43, use the Broadcom STA ones.

You could write your own ebuild to integrate your additional support
into the build. Or you could just copy the kernel source and config
out of the chroot, build it and then compile your LKMs against it,
which is what I do for testing. Because I know precisely nothing about
Gentoo/Portage, I just hacked my own system onto the end of the build
process which uses the existing build environment from the image we
just made to build anything new we need ontop of it. These compiled
binaries are then installed into the image before it's compressed
ready for download.

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[Steve Pirk]

Ya'll crack me up. Hexxeh is not even out of school yet, and is writing his own build process and morphing a connection to the tail of portage to adapt what is what is now to what he was used to.

Nate has no technical education to speak of [tha tI know of], and is solidly using the existing system, adapting as he can to hardware he has to include drivers for on his own.

Both are producing working images that people can use, both provide updates to keep things as close to the main dev tree as possible.

It's like a new set of Linux distros is coming into being, but these are based on a web mostly/no install needed version of Linux. I wonder how long we will last once Google releases the proprietary version... ;-] hahaha... This is really fun tho... seriously fun.

--steve
steve pirk
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google profile: pirk.com
"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune

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[Mr Seb]

I'm not quite sure what education has to do with the ability to hack Linux...

But I did just wake up; I'm sure it'll come to me any moment now.

-S

[Steve Pirk]

I was making a comparison to what companies I have worked for require for minimum education, and some of the talent I have seen in some computer science graduates. The work these guys are doing is pretty advanced. I just think it is is cool that talent like this exists.

--steve
steve pirk
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"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune