Chrome OS Vanilla and update Browser on "Flow" Version

[mamic]

Hi,

i've two questions:

1) on my EEE 901 the flow version by hexxeh works very fine, but how
can i update the browser from 5. to actually 6. or 7.?

2) i made the vanilla image on a SD card, but i can't boot, because
the i get a prompt " no bootable OS"

thanks for your help

[ChunkMonk]

I don't even get the prompt with my 901, just a flashing cursor. I
believe it is because the Vanilla images use the GPT partitioning
format rather than the older MBR scheme which Flow uses.

I could well be wrong but I understand that a BIOS supporting UEFI
boot (not necessarily a full UEFI BIOS) is required to boot GPT
disks...

Does anyone know if it is possible to create an MBR image for vanilla?

Thx

[D]

did you try any of the latest versions ? it may not work, there is one marked as verified, install that one :) 

Greetings,

Dinsan

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[ChunkMonk]

Hi, speaking for myself, I have tried a handful of vanilla builds,
both of the "verified" builds plus the 3 and 4th Oct... I get the
same with each :-(

On Oct 6, 5:51 pm, D <din...@gmail.com> wrote:
> did you try any of the latest versions ? it may not work, there is one
> marked as verified, install that one :)
>
> Greetings,
> Dinsan
>

> Chromestory.com
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> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:18 PM, ChunkMonk <marc.emmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't even get the prompt with my 901, just a flashing cursor.  I
> > believe it is because the Vanilla images use the GPT partitioning
> > format rather than the older MBR scheme which Flow uses.
>
> > I could well be wrong but I understand that a BIOS supporting UEFI
> > boot (not necessarily a full UEFI BIOS) is required to boot GPT
> > disks...
>
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to create an MBR image for vanilla?
>
> > Thx
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> > On Oct 6, 1:48 pm, mamic <markus.michae...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > i've two questions:
>
> > > 1) on my EEE 901 the flow version by hexxeh works very fine, but how
> > > can i update the browser from 5. to actually 6. or 7.?
>
> > > 2) i made the vanilla image on a SD card, but i can't boot, because
> > > the i get a prompt " no bootable OS"
>
> > > thanks for your help
>
> > --

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

[ChunkMonk]

Hi mamic,
I've finally got vanilla booting, though not from a usb key.

Basically I DD'd the Vanilla image to the 2nd internal hard disk. I
believe this is because the Vanilla builds specify the /dev/sdb device
to boot from. I am sure that it is possible to amend the boot files,
to instead refer to actual USB boot device (/dev/sdc at a guess), but
I am quite happy with it on the second SSD for now.

Also, FYI, wifi doesn't appear to work in vanilla though it worked
fine in Flow when I un-hid the SSID.

Good luck

[D]

wifi works only on atheros drives, not on broadcom, afaik

Greetings,

Dinsan

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[mamic]

Hi,

thanks for your advice. But how get you the image on internal hard
disk?

[ChunkMonk]

It was quite easy in the end, I nearly kicked myself for not thinking
about it sooner.

Using another PC I wrote an Ubuntu live CD to USB key, I then copied
the ChromeOS-Vanilla-0.8.71.2010_09_21_1226-rdb7d4e77.img file to it.
I haven't tried the very latest build yet.
I then I booted the Ubuntu live environment from the USB key on the
EEE. Press ESC at the BIOS screen and select the USB key to boot
from.
Once in Ubuntu I then wrote the IMG file to the second SSD using DD as
follows:
sudo dd if=/cdrom/ChromeOS-Vanilla-0.8.71.2010_09_21_1226-
rdb7d4e77.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4096
I then rebooted, hit ESC again and selected the 2nd SSD to boot from
and it successfully boots Vanilla.

Notes:
* You will want to check where the USB key root is mounted, for Ubuntu
it was the /cdrom folder, this is where the image file will reside.
* Also you will want to double-check Ubuntu is seeing your second SSD
at /dev/sdb, if it is not then you will want to check the hard disk
order in the BIOS.
* Pretty much any live CD that includes DD should do the job fine.
* I haven't tried it, but it is possible that just writing the IMG to
the USB and making the USB key the second boot device may also work,
rather than having to write it to a local SSD, I am not sure if Linux
will force IDE & SATA disks before USB disks in device ordering or if
it just uses BIOS ordering.

[mamic]

Hi,

great! It works. But i've the next problem. After the first screen
where i can choose the language and the network comes an update
screen: "please wait while chromium os installs the actually system
updates" (with a blue progress bar). On nearly 90 percent the EEE
hangs up (i tried this last night).

What can I do now?

I use the verified vanilla version from 7th of october.

thanks

[mamic]

*Update*

It works! But the version from 21th of September. Questions: Wifi
don't work on my EEE 901, on your machine it's possible? Where are the
apps menu (in the flow version on the left upper corner)?

Thanks

On 7 Okt., 15:32, ChunkMonk <marc.emmer...@gmail.com> wrote:

[D]

you can open this http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu and keep it pinned .. the original menu is not available yet.

Greetings,

Dinsan

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[ze diias]

did u solve ur prob cuz i cant update my browser too