Chromium on AMD APU laptop

[jlmart]

Hello everyone.

Once upon a time, I installed the hexxeh vanilla build on an Aspire One (AOA150) without problems and it was great.

Now Im attempting to install Chromium OS on a newer machine, wich has an AMD E1-6110 and a Radeon R2 series, and trying with arnoldthebat builds due to this machine having 8 GB of RAM, and using an x64 image.

The thing is, even after figuring out that UEFI was disabled and enabling it, the booting from USB process hangs up after selecting the default option "Load Image A" and nothing happens.

Is there another build out there? Im having a difficult time finding other images other than Arnold's, and even in this case, I don't know what the "Special Builds" have that the others don't. I even tried the latest one of the specials, and was no different.

Thanks in advance!

[Forrest Smith]

I'm not familiar with this laptop in particular, but just a guess based on what I've seen on other machines:

When USB booting, is there is option to boot from EFI file instead of from USB? Some UEFI models I've used require manual navigation to 'boootx64.efi' or else they display a blank screen.

Good luck!

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[Ian Bloss]

The other thing is the arnoldthebat build doesn't support your hardware configuration.

I know that newer amd cards require a different newer generation of amd cards and that arnoldthebat's build has either the older or newer drivers included but not the one that your machine needs.

If you can't get the machine to boot by playing with your bios, you either need to contact arnoldthebat about it and see if he will help troubleshoot it, or build your own chromiumos image that has a proper kernel configuration, and drivers(proprietary or opensource) for your device.

[Jose Luis Martinez]

Thanks! I still have to try the latest special build (turns out the one I've tested wasn't the latest) and try the solution from Forrest, as indeed the BIOS has that option.

Thanks everybody. I'll report back soon.

[Jose Luis Martinez]

Hi there.

No luck. I tried the latest version and then I set up the EFI file to boot in BIOS, still frozen on "flashrom:1418 map pfn expected mapping type uncached-minus for [m" (No more text)

Any ideas?

Thank you all.

[Ian Bloss]

Youll either have to request support from arnoldthebat (no gaurentees he'll do it) or build your own from scratch.