Install Chromium OS on Lenovo Thinkpad T43

[Nikolaj Jensen]

Hello,

I want to make my Lenovo Thinkpad T43 run Chromium OS. I was facing a fatal problem when i booted the OS. here's what i did:

1. Downloaded the newest Hexxeh build.

2. Made a bootable usb-stick with Win32 Disk imager.

3. Booted from the usb, and then the error was coming. When booting it says some thing like: Please wait, your system is preparing itself. 

Followed by a little text saying: Restarting (XX.XXXXXXX) The X means a number that constantly is changing. Then it reboots and repeat the progress again and again.

Does anyone know if i'm even able to run the Chromium OS on my T43? And if i can, some links to a download would always be welcome :)

And i may have damaged my USB-sticks. I did the steps above several times on two usb-sticks. and the one turned over to a 16GB HDD. It had 16GB memory but is showing as a HDD.

And the other one into a 1GB USB-stick. It had 8GB memory from the start.

So how can i make both back into two USB-sticks, with 16GB and 8GB memory? Is that possible?

Thank you for you time,

Nikolaj Jensen

[Isaac Alcocer]

Well Hexxeh builds doesnt run in all hardware configurations, so i recommend to use a newer build (http://download-chromiumos.appspot.com/) for your laptop, use 32 if its 32, and 64 for amd =D try that, and remember you can build your un image cheers =D.

PS.- =D here some more =D http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/

[Nikolaj Jensen]

I am now downloading and trying the download! :) 

But you said something about, that i could build my own build? Could you specify that a little bit :)

[Isaac Alcocer]

Well yes, you can build an image, here you gonna need to read all this ]=D. http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide

some steps are a bit confusing but that's why there is a discuss group =D cheers.

[Nikolaj Jensen]

That is a lot!

well, i tried the build that you linked, and it did the exact same as before.... Crap PC..... Anyway, I'm running Windows 8 if that has anything to say.

Do you know about anything i could do? exept from reading the guide? :)

Thanks,

Nikolaj Jensen

[Isaac Alcocer]

Ok, the win 8 Pc its brand new? maybe have some bootloader problems, security problems, or so. If you can boot ubuntu on it or another distro, you should be able to run chromium, check the Arch its build on(32,64,powerPC,etc), if the image you r using its 32 works on 64 arch, but not vise verse, so if still cant boot chromium, make sure that its just the GUI (the window system), by click on ctrl+alt+F2, if you see a terminal (some gray text in a black background), try to type "sudo -su"(the pass should be facepunch, or chrome) and do a "uname -a" this will show you some arch and system info. This is important, now we now that the linux basic shell (the chromium shell) its working and you have just GUI problems, this could be drivers, blacklisted modules, etc. but if it never boots, some kernel, system incompatibility, CPU Arch, basic start on its missing, or its not loaded. Then you should see on Windows 8 all the drivers, hardware, system info, like video card, audio card, touchpad, ethernet, wifi, etc, then check if chromium has support for some of them, maybe like i said, if you can boot Ubuntu LiveCD, Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, etc, it says that Linux has drivers and supports your hardware =D, you just need to port some of them. 

Cheers. =D 

[Nikolaj Jensen]

I'm sorry! I did not express myself clearly enough.

 

My PC, which i make the USB, is Win 8. And the PC i want to install Chromium OS on is the Lenovo T43, running Win XP.

I apologize the inconvenience.

-Nikolaj

[Isaac Alcocer]

Ok well, if its and old pc, you should check the hardware compatibility, maybe you need some legacy driver, or a specific driver for your cards (some AMD, and intel), maybe Win8 have some trouble using Win32 image writer, this use QT, and some "Mingw" library to work, but Hexxeh build should work on old configurations (vesa, mesa, vga, ethernet, mouse, keyboard). And like i said, check if the linux shell loads =D. 

cheers.

[Nikolaj Jensen]

Hello,

I went to test the ctrl+shift+F2, got the black screen but was unable to type anything. There are many things I do not understand,

so if i sound stupid you know why. 

I'm sorry. But if it could be helpful at any point; http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT035703

Its a link to the drivers for my T43. I did run Ubuntu on the T43 sometime long ago, Booted up smoothly.

Thank you,

Nikolaj Jensen

[Isky Hassan]

To fix your USB sticks, search on google for "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool". This software will reformat your USB sticks to full functionality. As for your error messages on boot, I've personally never seen them, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to explain them either. Most of my issues have to do with graphic driver issues, but I am able to see the Chromium logo on boot. Only thing I can suggest is to try different builds. ArnoldtheBat was mentioned earlier, so you can try Dell's build but they are a bit outdated: http://linux.dell.com/files/cto/ 

[Isaac Alcocer]

Hi again, well after read the link, looks like all drivers are supported, so i cannot tell what the problem is, i read this in other groups https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-os-discuss/oZU5n3eiDqA , this guy already install it t on a Thinkpad, so you could contact him and ask him, btw i use lowlevel format to restore my USB drives. And if you can post all your hardware to research a bit.

Cheers =P.