I just discovered your site, and I’m excited because Hexxeh doesn’t have any archived Chromium versions available on his site. However, every time I try to download from your site the file stops before I get the whole thing. Anything I can do to keep that from happening?
I am using your version of Chrome OS latest september version.
But I cant load adobe flash player.
Can you show me the full tutorial, i have no knowledge on the shell command..
Hi Arnoldthebat,
I’m using your build on my Thinkpad X230 and I’m excited to discovered your site that gave me the possibility to download the build and update every day with the dev server.
I’d like to know if you help me because I can’t install the plugin for Google+ hangout, overall works fine.
Thank you for tuor support.
Good job.
I have Nvidia Geforce 8200M G card running on Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. When i boot chromium os from USB I get splash screen then blank. Xorg log shows nouveau driver but this does not support this chipset (NVaa). How do I add Nvidia’s driver (310.44) to the image?
Hi! My laptop have Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100 and I can’t connect to wifi using ChromeOS. Can you help me please? How can i do? (Sorry for my english)
Hi arnold, thanks again for building these Chromium OS images. Recently, I (and others) have been having issues with the Files app (not synching with Google Drive, shutting down) and according to the developers who looked at it at the bug report, it may have something to do with your build. Could you take a look at this? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319442
You can enable at runtime by doing this yourself from the above api-keys page: Providing Keys at Runtime
If you prefer, you can build a Chromium binary (or use a pre-built Chromium binary) without API keys baked in, and instead provide them at runtime. To do so, set the environment variables GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET to your “API key”, “Client ID” and “Client secret” values respectively.
Hi,
Thanks very much for the builds. Very useful.
I followed all the steps to set the environment variables but I could not get google drive to work. Any suggestions?
Here’s how to activate the drive app after acquiring your own api-keys by Providing Keys at Runtime:
(First of course make your filesystem writeable: “mount -o remount, RW /”)
Add the following lines in the file “/sbin/session_manager_setup.sh” (I put mine around line 70-something, along with other “export” lines)
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=”yourapikeyhere”
export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID=”yourclientidhere”
export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET=”yourclientsecrethere”
Hi, I’m trying to boot from two laptops (Acer Aspire 9500 – Centrino and Dell E6420 – Core i5) and a VirtualBox VM.
With recent ArnoldTheBat builds I’m not able to boot, while it was possible with Hexxen builds.
What are the main differences about supporting generic x86 HW?
Do you plan to build also an ISO file for Live CD-ROM booting? [Booting with USB image is not always possible]
Thanks for taking on Chrome OS builds. I think there is need for a simple and stable linux based desktop for common users, like my 69 yrs old father that would find Chrome OS to be an ideal desktop environment for his Centrino laptop.
Have you tried booting with Plop and then choosing USB? You might be able to boot from your USB with that. I had to do that with my laptop as boot kept freezing with just a USB stick in.
Hey Arnold,
can you give me any advice on how to get chromium going on my asus eeepc 1015pn, i tried several distros of yours and hexxeh and even dell ones so far but most of the time the bootscreen stays dark, sometimes showing the chrome logo, than a blank screen. In my opinion this may be related to the 1015pn having 2 graphiccards (in a netbook) an onboard Intel 3150 GMA and a Nvidia ION. How hard is it to make a build myself? Is there a way to just add graphic support (onboard would be fine, external would be neat).
I really wanna get this working on this little machine.
Any help is appreciated!
PS: Did you ever try Chromium OS on a Tablet? (Dont they also use ARM?)
You are correct, its the graphics since the vanilla versions of ChromiumOS are limited in what they can support..
Im looking to get some Intel kernel based video drivers into special edition builds to see if that assists. Ill post an update as soon as I have sorted it.
First of all if you are ever in Montreal I would be happy to buy you a pint of our finest beer. I work for a School board over here and have been working on converting old Netbooks into “Chromebooks” using the Chrominum OS (Vanilla build). So far it seems to be working great however I am unable to get Flash up and running but i have not been successful. I have tried running the scripts that i found from several sites but when I try running it from the terminal i get a could not resolve host and could not contact DNS servers error.
I cam across a link to your site so I thought I would take a chance and ask for your help. We are trying to get technology into the hands of some of our less fortunate students so any help on your part would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, appreciate your efforts in making all these alternative builds available. Not having much luck however with installing either yours or Hexeth builds on my Eee PC 701sd or my Samsung N210 plus. On the Eeepc I get the system repairing issue at boot, and on the Samsung it boots to the first screen but can’t find any network so I can’t go further. I’ve struggled to find the WiFi chip set but don’t think its Broadcom. Any tips?
I am having issues getting ChromiumOS to run on a Lenovo t61 as well as a Dell Latitude D830. I have tried 2 different builds. The latest nightly build and also one from January. The same thing happens. I get the Chromium screen, then it reboots, I see the Chromium screen again for a moment and then the screen goes blank. Can you help me? Thanks!
I would like to allow only one website on my PC, I have read lots of threads about kiosk mode but I have no idea where to try any commands I am finding. I am booting a vanilla ISO on a USB stick, can I get to a terminal after boot? Or do I need to be a developer and compile my preference for the single website access into a custom ISO? Thanks so much if you can lead me anywhere…
I just want to say thank you for the Chromium builds. I am a teacher, and I have whole school responsibility for e-learning in a large secondary academy, that serves a disadvantaged community in West Yorkshire.
Due to the unreliability of our new Windows laptops in the classroom (long loading times, taking time to get roaming profiles from the server) we are planning to migrate student files to Google Apps for Education and to dual boot all student laptops onto Chromium OS to help facilitate the use of easy to deploy educational technology throughout the school. This in line with a vision to enhance collaboration between students (using Google Apps for Education) and to use a range of new browser based educational technology (without waiting 7 minutes for all laptops to get profiles and log on)!
It is because of people who give up their time, such as yourself, that we are able to do this and enhance the education of young people. On the vast majority of our laptops your builds of Chromium are working well. Thank you!
However, we have 90 legacy netbooks (Samsung N130) that are rotting away in a cupboard. We would like to roll out so that we can create larger class sets of cheap “Chrome Books” that can be deployed in classes. Unfortunately they require the Realtek 8193E driver to be installed to use WiFi. I have tried installing the RealTek drivers from your site, and even copying them in from Ubuntu. However, I can’t get these netbooks to connect.
Is there any way that you can help us? It would make a great difference to the scale and use of educational technology in our school! It would greatly enhance teaching and learning at our school. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
First of all, thank you for providing us with your website. Appreciate it very much.
I downloaded Cx86OS-20131117010101.vdi just now and tried to run it in VirtualBox with default Linux Ubuntu settings. All I get is a blank screen. Tried CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a prompt but no luck from the gods.
Trying to do above for a Kiosk foundation project for the less fortunate to learn email and web surfing.
With Broadcom opening up the Graphics Drivers to the Raspberry Pi, is there a chance we might see a functional version of Chromium OS in the future? I tried the Arm version on the Pi and the BBB, both yours and Hexxeh’s builds, and no luck with either.
Could be! There is a specific raspberry Pi board to compile against but that fails (when I last tested it). Once the drivers are imported who knows what may work!
I’m booting my recently purchased dell laptop x64 to the latest build. I believe that its a built in Intel sound bus??
I get sound from my computer speakers, but no sound when I plug in my headphones. I believe that its a dual purpose 3.5mm stereo plug (one at a time use of microphone, headset, or headphones).
Any clue how I could get sound to come out of my headphones?
S.O.S. Venezuela
Is necesary any elements or BIOS conditions to install ChromiumOS on the hard-disk?. I got a Aspire 5515 Acer, with a AMD64 proccesor, and, untill now, was impossible install ChromiumOS. The boot order is correct, the USB Booteable Key was burned from Terminal following the instructionn-guide but doesnt work, try with different USB key, 4 GB, 16 GB and nothing, the system start with my default Debian GRUB. Any help with this, please, I am really want transform my notebook onto a Chromebook. Somebody help me please.
Sincere “thanks” for all of the work that you do providing Chromium OS builds to the broader community!!
I downloaded a recent Chromium OS image with the intention of running it on my 64-bit Toshiba Satellite C55-A5281 laptop. I got the xxx.img file installed on my USB flash drive without issue, and I was able to boot to the sign-in screen. Unfortunately, I could go no further, because I couldn’t see any WiFi networks, nor could I plug in my RJ-45 ethernet cable and see it either.
The wireless card employed by this machine is the following:
Realtek Semiconductor Co, Ltd.
RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
PCI ID: 10ec : 8179 (rev 01)
I’ve read all of your interactions with other folks – it’s pretty clear that there are precious few wireless cards that are supported by the Chrome OS builds.
With this context, a few questions:
**Keep in mind with your responses that I’m by no means in your league in terms of facility with computers/software. . . .I would call myself a “savvy user” and no more. . .
1. How would I go about attempting to get Chrome OS to boot from a flash drive and work on my system?
2. If there’s a driver /driver-list available out there, how would I integrate it such that it’ll be on the bootable flash-drive?
3. I understand now why you recommend running Chrome OS in a virtual machine, but I’ve read through the instructions on setting up a virtual machine. . . that’s a bit beyond me without some coaching that neither you or others have time to support. . .I’d rather just be able to run this from a flash-drive, if that’s possible. . .it actually booted to the login-screen incredibly quickly using a USB 3.0 Flash Drive.
At any rate, let me know your thoughts on my questions above. . . regardless, I want to thank you again for supporting this Chromium OS. . .
Re the wireless driver, Ive added that to the list of drivers I need to attempt to bake in to the special edition builds. Time is proving hard to find however to get this done!
As to booting from flash drive? They the installation to hard drive method and see if the card is detected. You can then set your BIOS to boot from said card (again , only if its supported). If you mean USB flash drive (as you note later in your message), this is simple enough to remedy by going into your devices BIOS and setting USB boot as the 1st option (F12 can allow you to select a boot device as well on an ad-hoc basis)
There is no driver list as such, just people like you letting me know what works and what fails. Ill get round to an updated special edition build as soon as I can.
hi arnold the bat i have downloaded chrome os img file & wrote it to my usb. but when i try to boot it it says booting local image A & then doesnt respond which one should i use mbr or uefi boot please help me
Just installed the 64-bit (AMD64) version on my Samsung 500 Chromebook. Everything is working well other than the Adobe Flashplayer issue. I tried the install solution listed and it still does not work. Has there been another workaround for this?
I tried booting your latest build (and a couple of less recent ones) on an Acer Aspire One ZA3 and don’t get past the “Booting the Kernel” message. I’ve tried two different USB sticks and not getting anywhere with it. I can boot into Linux Distros fine on the laptop from USB so I’m sure it’s not the BIOS disliking booting from USB.
Hi.
I had an Intel i5 – Intel HM 55 – nVidia GeForce 330 M (1GB) – 4 GB RAM (2x 2GB DDR3).
I’m able to run your build on my PC? I already tryed 32 and 64 bits and nothing. Someone told me that the May 27 th daily build works, but I can’t get it too.
Having problem “burning” to USB. Goes through the process, but when done the USB has changed from one partition to nine (of various sizes). What am I doing wrong?
The latest builds run smooth on my Packard Bell Easynote TK36.
Now I want to get rid of the USB drive.
The instructions from Arnold refer to a Virtual Machine Installation. I cannot get to a working command to just install it my harddrive.
Used:
install
install –dst=/dev/sda.
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install from Ctrl-Alt-F2 command line.
All is failing… ;-(
I have acer c720 and i updated the bios of john lewis.
i installed windows 7. Windows work fine but i have problem with driver.
Now i need to change in factory chromium os
i created usb boot with img64bit.
First problem i have with monitor black every time
if login with my account sometime freeze.
sometime login very well.
I open shell (ctrl+alt+t) and the sudo need the password.
i write the pass for my account, but nothing.
sorry try again
password
Those modules are out of date since the kernel on the new builds is 3.14. The modules need updating. Ill get round to it soon but feel free to try yourself!
I am starting to learn how to operate linux, but I’m not in a level of updating modules to different kernels, which is why I was stuck trying to import it for 5 days, and frankly enough searched for enough guides which just show me how to import all over again.
Thanking you for taking care of us, marvell users. (Although I never chose this :P)
I just want to post an info here.
DriveDroid on android is able to boot chromiumos!
I just mounted the .bin file and booted straight off my Nexus 4!
Credits to softwarebakery.com
Cheers. 🙂
I had a devil of a time getting ubuntu/chromium to dual boot and getting the latest flash. There are many pages that have parts of good information, but other information that doesn’t work. I threw up the following on Gist in the sincere hope that it can save somebody an hour or two:
I’m running your version of the latest Chromium. However only one problem, I’m having trouble installing flash. I’ve looked at earlier comments were you suggested the page “https://gist.github.com/3065781”. However after running the code I get the error “bash: line 1: 400: : command not found”
Isn’t the pdf & whatnot included in Arnold’s build? The only thing I would touch is flash. You could try the dual booting howto I posted. Or, just boot to a Ubuntu Live and do it that way.
HI I need a way to update the chrome web browser on Chromium OS as I can’t install anything from the Chrome web shop all I get is message saying I need to update the chrome web browser to latest version but when I click on the link it gives on the chromium OS that don’t work, I have tried your script but this causes the system to crash totally if there was a script that just updates the chrome web browser this would be really cool I all ready have my build with flash player, PDF and many other things working just need to get web browser to update then I’m complete and can start deployment in the schools here in sweden
I’m trying to run (and eventually install) chromium os on an old Dell Latitude C400. Every time I boot up, I get what looks like might be a splash screen then it freezes. The caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock all flash the same way they do when I get a kernel panic in lubuntu. Any ideas?
I’m a teacher with a dozen of these and I’d like to make them into chromiumbooks so we can use them again.
System Specs:
Pentium 3 – 1.2GHz
1GB Ram
Intel 830M Graphics Video Controller
Holy cow – I enabled api’s and nothing worked right. Sync is messed up, even though I enabled it. Does anybody have a list of the correct API’s to enable? Do you have to reset your secret or anything afterwards? Much thanks.
Hi, tnx for your work! I have a question :
Model of my notebook is Asus S56CB he has two graphic card on board. Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia 740m. And all images what works on my notebook using nvidia card. Is any way to switch on Intel graphics? Again tnx for your work 🙂
I am currently stuck and need some assistance, managed to get img installed on disk which I can use as mounted drive within Hyper-v on windows, OS started to boot then I was getting “piix4_smbus 0000.00.07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade bios or use force_addr=0xaddr” which I managed to get around by blacklisting piix4_smbus, but I have now come to a new issue…”EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn’t mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibility”. Is there any way around this or is it a dead end?
I am new to chromium, but have the latest version from hexxeh, but the browser is outdated, so i tried your versions, but i can´t get any of them to boot, they all write kernel error something panic thingy.
We are using this build on many older devices at a school district where I work. The issue we are having is that we want students to be able to work on documents offline (at home without internet connection) but we can’t seem to get that to work as it does on full-blown Chromebooks. Any ideas as to why? When we go to files -> offline -> settings -> Space shows “Failed to retrieve space info”. We are currently getting this on a Dell XT2 and Dell XT3.
Thanks for your information.
This is very helpful, but unfortunately I could not launch Chromium.
There is an error like this
“(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device”
I found some useful information between the difference between hexx and arnoldthebat.
I think I have to launch X as root user.
I will try again…
I just discovered your site, and I’m excited because Hexxeh doesn’t have any archived Chromium versions available on his site. However, every time I try to download from your site the file stops before I get the whole thing. Anything I can do to keep that from happening?
Ethan
Hi Ethan
This is being sorted (hopefully today). For older versions you can also go to http://mirror.arnoldthebat.co.uk/…
If you know linux at all (or get wget for windows) you can use wget to get the downloads which will resume until the problem is solved.
I am using your version of Chrome OS latest september version.
But I cant load adobe flash player.
Can you show me the full tutorial, i have no knowledge on the shell command..
Thanks,
what is a password for sudo? I can’t find information on that.
any option to install functioning flash?
I found the ‘password’, nevermind!
what about the flash?
I know that you can’t include it in builds but is there any option to install it manually?
Instructions like
https://sites.google.com/site/chrelad/notes-1/updateadobeflashplayeronchromeos
don’t work
Hi
Try https://gist.github.com/3065781 for Flash etc
Hi Arnoldthebat,
I’m using your build on my Thinkpad X230 and I’m excited to discovered your site that gave me the possibility to download the build and update every day with the dev server.
I’d like to know if you help me because I can’t install the plugin for Google+ hangout, overall works fine.
Thank you for tuor support.
Good job.
Alessandro
Hi
You will need to look to Google search to find the answer to that! I haven’t tested that yet!
Hi,
Do you have any instructions on porting the ARM image to an Android Stick device running Allwinner A10, RK3066 or i.MX6 processor?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob Knight.
None, sorry!
I have Nvidia Geforce 8200M G card running on Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. When i boot chromium os from USB I get splash screen then blank. Xorg log shows nouveau driver but this does not support this chipset (NVaa). How do I add Nvidia’s driver (310.44) to the image?
In theory you should be able to inject the drivers the same way as any other Linux distro… Other than that, I have nothing to test with so good luck!
Hi! My laptop have Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100 and I can’t connect to wifi using ChromeOS. Can you help me please? How can i do? (Sorry for my english)
could you give me a ArnoldTheBat’s Cx86OS-20130423010101 build?
i cant download in mirror site.
please share with dropbox or mediafire or googledrive.
No, since its been superseded. Sorry!
Trying to run on an older HP dv6500 but my neither wireless or ethernet is working. Any ideas what to do?
Hi arnold, thanks again for building these Chromium OS images. Recently, I (and others) have been having issues with the Files app (not synching with Google Drive, shutting down) and according to the developers who looked at it at the bug report, it may have something to do with your build. Could you take a look at this? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319442
Hi
In order to do this, it looks like Ill be in violation of the ToS:
http://developer.chrome.com/apps/gcm_tos.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16503734/google-cloud-messaging-for-chrome-api-terms-of-service
https://developers.google.com/chrome/remote-desktop/terms
http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys (Note that the keys you have now acquired are not for distribution purposes)
Looks like we will be out of luck therefore!
You can enable at runtime by doing this yourself from the above api-keys page:
Providing Keys at Runtime
If you prefer, you can build a Chromium binary (or use a pre-built Chromium binary) without API keys baked in, and instead provide them at runtime. To do so, set the environment variables GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET to your “API key”, “Client ID” and “Client secret” values respectively.
hi Tony,
Do your builds have the API keys built in? I tried setting the above env variables but no luck with opening drive using the ‘Files’ App.
-hari
No, sorry since I’m not allowed to distribute them.…
Hi,
Thanks very much for the builds. Very useful.
I followed all the steps to set the environment variables but I could not get google drive to work. Any suggestions?
-hari
Here’s how to activate the drive app after acquiring your own api-keys by Providing Keys at Runtime:
(First of course make your filesystem writeable: “mount -o remount, RW /”)
Add the following lines in the file “/sbin/session_manager_setup.sh” (I put mine around line 70-something, along with other “export” lines)
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=”yourapikeyhere”
export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID=”yourclientidhere”
export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET=”yourclientsecrethere”
Here’s the guy who found it:
https://plus.google.com/102544080837621901149/posts/gCEKYPzQhMY
Get your own API-keys:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys
(I also added the following API:s “Drive API”, “Drive SDK” and “Google Cloud Datastore API”)
I’ve tried this but in new versions, “/sbin/session_manager_setup.sh” says it’s not being used anymore.
Is there a new location to put these in?
Hi, I’m trying to boot from two laptops (Acer Aspire 9500 – Centrino and Dell E6420 – Core i5) and a VirtualBox VM.
With recent ArnoldTheBat builds I’m not able to boot, while it was possible with Hexxen builds.
What are the main differences about supporting generic x86 HW?
Do you plan to build also an ISO file for Live CD-ROM booting? [Booting with USB image is not always possible]
Thanks for taking on Chrome OS builds. I think there is need for a simple and stable linux based desktop for common users, like my 69 yrs old father that would find Chrome OS to be an ideal desktop environment for his Centrino laptop.
no plans for Live ISO, sorry. You will need to stick with USB for now.
Have you tried booting with Plop and then choosing USB? You might be able to boot from your USB with that. I had to do that with my laptop as boot kept freezing with just a USB stick in.
Is flash player currently hopeless? Kind of ruins the whole thing if you cannot get some flash plugin going.
Have you tried https://gist.github.com/dz0ny/3065781?
Hey Arnold,
can you give me any advice on how to get chromium going on my asus eeepc 1015pn, i tried several distros of yours and hexxeh and even dell ones so far but most of the time the bootscreen stays dark, sometimes showing the chrome logo, than a blank screen. In my opinion this may be related to the 1015pn having 2 graphiccards (in a netbook) an onboard Intel 3150 GMA and a Nvidia ION. How hard is it to make a build myself? Is there a way to just add graphic support (onboard would be fine, external would be neat).
I really wanna get this working on this little machine.
Any help is appreciated!
PS: Did you ever try Chromium OS on a Tablet? (Dont they also use ARM?)
Best Regards,
Niksda
Hi
You are correct, its the graphics since the vanilla versions of ChromiumOS are limited in what they can support..
Im looking to get some Intel kernel based video drivers into special edition builds to see if that assists. Ill post an update as soon as I have sorted it.
As for how to build yourself: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide
Hi Arnold,
First of all if you are ever in Montreal I would be happy to buy you a pint of our finest beer. I work for a School board over here and have been working on converting old Netbooks into “Chromebooks” using the Chrominum OS (Vanilla build). So far it seems to be working great however I am unable to get Flash up and running but i have not been successful. I have tried running the scripts that i found from several sites but when I try running it from the terminal i get a could not resolve host and could not contact DNS servers error.
I cam across a link to your site so I thought I would take a chance and ask for your help. We are trying to get technology into the hands of some of our less fortunate students so any help on your part would be greatly appreciated.
Happy to help but please bear with me time wise since I am a little busy at the moment. Can you post what you were trying at cmd line and the outcome?
Hi, appreciate your efforts in making all these alternative builds available. Not having much luck however with installing either yours or Hexeth builds on my Eee PC 701sd or my Samsung N210 plus. On the Eeepc I get the system repairing issue at boot, and on the Samsung it boots to the first screen but can’t find any network so I can’t go further. I’ve struggled to find the WiFi chip set but don’t think its Broadcom. Any tips?
Hi
Its either going to be Atheros or Broadcom (http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/NP-N210-JA02US).
Have you tried the special builds? (http://arnoldthebat.co.uk/wordpress/2014/01/05/multiple-driver-special-edition-build/)
Yes, I tried the newest one – are there others worth trying?
Not yet, its a work in progress!!
Looking forward to it!
I am having issues getting ChromiumOS to run on a Lenovo t61 as well as a Dell Latitude D830. I have tried 2 different builds. The latest nightly build and also one from January. The same thing happens. I get the Chromium screen, then it reboots, I see the Chromium screen again for a moment and then the screen goes blank. Can you help me? Thanks!
I would like to allow only one website on my PC, I have read lots of threads about kiosk mode but I have no idea where to try any commands I am finding. I am booting a vanilla ISO on a USB stick, can I get to a terminal after boot? Or do I need to be a developer and compile my preference for the single website access into a custom ISO? Thanks so much if you can lead me anywhere…
ArnoldTheBat,
I just want to say thank you for the Chromium builds. I am a teacher, and I have whole school responsibility for e-learning in a large secondary academy, that serves a disadvantaged community in West Yorkshire.
Due to the unreliability of our new Windows laptops in the classroom (long loading times, taking time to get roaming profiles from the server) we are planning to migrate student files to Google Apps for Education and to dual boot all student laptops onto Chromium OS to help facilitate the use of easy to deploy educational technology throughout the school. This in line with a vision to enhance collaboration between students (using Google Apps for Education) and to use a range of new browser based educational technology (without waiting 7 minutes for all laptops to get profiles and log on)!
It is because of people who give up their time, such as yourself, that we are able to do this and enhance the education of young people. On the vast majority of our laptops your builds of Chromium are working well. Thank you!
However, we have 90 legacy netbooks (Samsung N130) that are rotting away in a cupboard. We would like to roll out so that we can create larger class sets of cheap “Chrome Books” that can be deployed in classes. Unfortunately they require the Realtek 8193E driver to be installed to use WiFi. I have tried installing the RealTek drivers from your site, and even copying them in from Ubuntu. However, I can’t get these netbooks to connect.
Is there any way that you can help us? It would make a great difference to the scale and use of educational technology in our school! It would greatly enhance teaching and learning at our school. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Hi
Added to the list of things to do!!
Greetings Arnold;
First of all, thank you for providing us with your website. Appreciate it very much.
I downloaded Cx86OS-20131117010101.vdi just now and tried to run it in VirtualBox with default Linux Ubuntu settings. All I get is a blank screen. Tried CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a prompt but no luck from the gods.
Trying to do above for a Kiosk foundation project for the less fortunate to learn email and web surfing.
Help please, thank you.
Hi Robert
I think this is graphics support(again). I have a project to look at that, but its only when I get time..
Thank you for the prompt reply and will keep an eye on the graphics issue. Take care.
With Broadcom opening up the Graphics Drivers to the Raspberry Pi, is there a chance we might see a functional version of Chromium OS in the future? I tried the Arm version on the Pi and the BBB, both yours and Hexxeh’s builds, and no luck with either.
Could be! There is a specific raspberry Pi board to compile against but that fails (when I last tested it). Once the drivers are imported who knows what may work!
Hi Arnold…
Would you have a non-pae Chromium version recommendation for a Dell 710m Pentium-M?
I like what you’re doing.
Cheers,
Terry
sorry, no. I only build the 3 variants noted at the moment
Are the VDI files for Virtual box./ I been trying to get it running there. Not much luck.
yes, but the graphics support is letting down most if not all of the later builds
Hey Arnold
I’m booting my recently purchased dell laptop x64 to the latest build. I believe that its a built in Intel sound bus??
I get sound from my computer speakers, but no sound when I plug in my headphones. I believe that its a dual purpose 3.5mm stereo plug (one at a time use of microphone, headset, or headphones).
Any clue how I could get sound to come out of my headphones?
Many thanks
None, sorry!
S.O.S. Venezuela
Is necesary any elements or BIOS conditions to install ChromiumOS on the hard-disk?. I got a Aspire 5515 Acer, with a AMD64 proccesor, and, untill now, was impossible install ChromiumOS. The boot order is correct, the USB Booteable Key was burned from Terminal following the instructionn-guide but doesnt work, try with different USB key, 4 GB, 16 GB and nothing, the system start with my default Debian GRUB. Any help with this, please, I am really want transform my notebook onto a Chromebook. Somebody help me please.
ArnoldTheBat,
Sincere “thanks” for all of the work that you do providing Chromium OS builds to the broader community!!
I downloaded a recent Chromium OS image with the intention of running it on my 64-bit Toshiba Satellite C55-A5281 laptop. I got the xxx.img file installed on my USB flash drive without issue, and I was able to boot to the sign-in screen. Unfortunately, I could go no further, because I couldn’t see any WiFi networks, nor could I plug in my RJ-45 ethernet cable and see it either.
The wireless card employed by this machine is the following:
Realtek Semiconductor Co, Ltd.
RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
PCI ID: 10ec : 8179 (rev 01)
I’ve read all of your interactions with other folks – it’s pretty clear that there are precious few wireless cards that are supported by the Chrome OS builds.
With this context, a few questions:
**Keep in mind with your responses that I’m by no means in your league in terms of facility with computers/software. . . .I would call myself a “savvy user” and no more. . .
1. How would I go about attempting to get Chrome OS to boot from a flash drive and work on my system?
2. If there’s a driver /driver-list available out there, how would I integrate it such that it’ll be on the bootable flash-drive?
3. I understand now why you recommend running Chrome OS in a virtual machine, but I’ve read through the instructions on setting up a virtual machine. . . that’s a bit beyond me without some coaching that neither you or others have time to support. . .I’d rather just be able to run this from a flash-drive, if that’s possible. . .it actually booted to the login-screen incredibly quickly using a USB 3.0 Flash Drive.
At any rate, let me know your thoughts on my questions above. . . regardless, I want to thank you again for supporting this Chromium OS. . .
Best regards,
Henry N. Yates, II
Hi
Re the wireless driver, Ive added that to the list of drivers I need to attempt to bake in to the special edition builds. Time is proving hard to find however to get this done!
As to booting from flash drive? They the installation to hard drive method and see if the card is detected. You can then set your BIOS to boot from said card (again , only if its supported). If you mean USB flash drive (as you note later in your message), this is simple enough to remedy by going into your devices BIOS and setting USB boot as the 1st option (F12 can allow you to select a boot device as well on an ad-hoc basis)
There is no driver list as such, just people like you letting me know what works and what fails. Ill get round to an updated special edition build as soon as I can.
hi arnold the bat i have downloaded chrome os img file & wrote it to my usb. but when i try to boot it it says booting local image A & then doesnt respond which one should i use mbr or uefi boot please help me
Legacy boot will be the safest bios option if you have it available.
Just installed the 64-bit (AMD64) version on my Samsung 500 Chromebook. Everything is working well other than the Adobe Flashplayer issue. I tried the install solution listed and it still does not work. Has there been another workaround for this?
Great job otherwise!!!
THANKS
Hi Arnold,
I tried booting your latest build (and a couple of less recent ones) on an Acer Aspire One ZA3 and don’t get past the “Booting the Kernel” message. I’ve tried two different USB sticks and not getting anywhere with it. I can boot into Linux Distros fine on the laptop from USB so I’m sure it’s not the BIOS disliking booting from USB.
Cheers
Glad/Sad it’s not just me experiencing that. I may try some older build perhaps when I get time.
Hi.
I had an Intel i5 – Intel HM 55 – nVidia GeForce 330 M (1GB) – 4 GB RAM (2x 2GB DDR3).
I’m able to run your build on my PC? I already tryed 32 and 64 bits and nothing. Someone told me that the May 27 th daily build works, but I can’t get it too.
Thanks in advance
Hi arnoldthebat do you have any idea if your builds work with Intel HD4000 Graphics?
Try it and see!
Having problem “burning” to USB. Goes through the process, but when done the USB has changed from one partition to nine (of various sizes). What am I doing wrong?
Nothing, thats normal behaviour!
The latest builds run smooth on my Packard Bell Easynote TK36.
Now I want to get rid of the USB drive.
The instructions from Arnold refer to a Virtual Machine Installation. I cannot get to a working command to just install it my harddrive.
Used:
install
install –dst=/dev/sda.
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install from Ctrl-Alt-F2 command line.
All is failing… ;-(
Hi Arnold
I have acer c720 and i updated the bios of john lewis.
i installed windows 7. Windows work fine but i have problem with driver.
Now i need to change in factory chromium os
i created usb boot with img64bit.
First problem i have with monitor black every time
if login with my account sometime freeze.
sometime login very well.
I open shell (ctrl+alt+t) and the sudo need the password.
i write the pass for my account, but nothing.
sorry try again
password
I need to recover my chromium in my machine.
What can i do??
Hi
Is possible to install chromium os back to my machine?
hi im wondering how to put/ install chrome os n hard drive with dual boot with Ubuntu and windows 8.1 please i need help with this. i had follow some guides from here
https://sites.google.com/site/installationubuntu/chrome-os/make-your-own-chromium-os-notebook
and
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29283/install-chromium-os-without-usb-disk
Dont put your email address in a link unless you want spam galore!
Continue to Google and you will find a way. I dont dual boot so cannot assist, sorry!
thanks for the awesome chromium os arnold,
but i have a issue i hope u can solve,
adobe flash isnt working.
Google it and you will find lots of solutions
Hey arnold,
I really like your builds, but there is one problem.
My main computer at home just doesn’t connect to the internet through ethernet. I have a Marvell Yukon 88E8056 network card.
I saw that you have a module up but I cannot seem to use it.
The link up top for instructions as of how just sends me here with no information.
Where can I get some information for using it? Searched quite a lot.
Thanks,
Bar H.
Hi
Those modules are out of date since the kernel on the new builds is 3.14. The modules need updating. Ill get round to it soon but feel free to try yourself!
Thanks mate for the quick reply 🙂
I am starting to learn how to operate linux, but I’m not in a level of updating modules to different kernels, which is why I was stuck trying to import it for 5 days, and frankly enough searched for enough guides which just show me how to import all over again.
Thanking you for taking care of us, marvell users. (Although I never chose this :P)
I just want to post an info here.
DriveDroid on android is able to boot chromiumos!
I just mounted the .bin file and booted straight off my Nexus 4!
Credits to softwarebakery.com
Cheers. 🙂
I had a devil of a time getting ubuntu/chromium to dual boot and getting the latest flash. There are many pages that have parts of good information, but other information that doesn’t work. I threw up the following on Gist in the sincere hope that it can save somebody an hour or two:
https://gist.github.com/helpdeskdan/9f5e7ebb9e5b0a771766
Also, thank you very much Arnold.
Hi Dan! This is for intall ChromiumOS on a HDD? I’m trying but i can’t!
More for dual boot with Ubuntu. You could follow just part of it, or find an easier procedure if all you want is chromium.
Hi Arnold,
I’m running your version of the latest Chromium. However only one problem, I’m having trouble installing flash. I’ve looked at earlier comments were you suggested the page “https://gist.github.com/3065781”. However after running the code I get the error “bash: line 1: 400: : command not found”
Would appreciate any help,
Isn’t the pdf & whatnot included in Arnold’s build? The only thing I would touch is flash. You could try the dual booting howto I posted. Or, just boot to a Ubuntu Live and do it that way.
HI I need a way to update the chrome web browser on Chromium OS as I can’t install anything from the Chrome web shop all I get is message saying I need to update the chrome web browser to latest version but when I click on the link it gives on the chromium OS that don’t work, I have tried your script but this causes the system to crash totally if there was a script that just updates the chrome web browser this would be really cool I all ready have my build with flash player, PDF and many other things working just need to get web browser to update then I’m complete and can start deployment in the schools here in sweden
Ill need to take a look. Ive not really used the web apps side of things since it was launched. Could be API keys again but Ill need to check
Odd, I have no trouble with apps
I’m trying to run (and eventually install) chromium os on an old Dell Latitude C400. Every time I boot up, I get what looks like might be a splash screen then it freezes. The caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock all flash the same way they do when I get a kernel panic in lubuntu. Any ideas?
I’m a teacher with a dozen of these and I’d like to make them into chromiumbooks so we can use them again.
System Specs:
Pentium 3 – 1.2GHz
1GB Ram
Intel 830M Graphics Video Controller
I also use PLOP to boot from USB1.1
Im thinking P3 may be a little old to boot. When the UI locks up, can you still press Alt-F2 and do you get a login prompt if so?
Holy cow – I enabled api’s and nothing worked right. Sync is messed up, even though I enabled it. Does anybody have a list of the correct API’s to enable? Do you have to reset your secret or anything afterwards? Much thanks.
Hello. I want install Chrome OS in my ACER, but i do not know the password. Can somebody help me?
Password is ‘password’ (without the quotes)
Hi, tnx for your work! I have a question :
Model of my notebook is Asus S56CB he has two graphic card on board. Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia 740m. And all images what works on my notebook using nvidia card. Is any way to switch on Intel graphics? Again tnx for your work 🙂
Can you go into the bios and specify which video chip to use? Is the NVidia one for video out only? Maybe you can disable that… ?
I am currently stuck and need some assistance, managed to get img installed on disk which I can use as mounted drive within Hyper-v on windows, OS started to boot then I was getting “piix4_smbus 0000.00.07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade bios or use force_addr=0xaddr” which I managed to get around by blacklisting piix4_smbus, but I have now come to a new issue…”EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn’t mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibility”. Is there any way around this or is it a dead end?
Hello Bat 😉
I am new to chromium, but have the latest version from hexxeh, but the browser is outdated, so i tried your versions, but i can´t get any of them to boot, they all write kernel error something panic thingy.
Is there a solution for this?
More than likely incompatibilities on the version you are trying. Go for the older special builds and see how you get on with that.
We are using this build on many older devices at a school district where I work. The issue we are having is that we want students to be able to work on documents offline (at home without internet connection) but we can’t seem to get that to work as it does on full-blown Chromebooks. Any ideas as to why? When we go to files -> offline -> settings -> Space shows “Failed to retrieve space info”. We are currently getting this on a Dell XT2 and Dell XT3.
Have you tried this ion other machines? Does it behave the same for all?
I believe it’s part of the Google Drive not connecting with the Files App. Isn’t that a Google dev API key thing?
When I try to boot to the flash drive I get this error.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3706941/2014-11-04%2008.10.04.jpg
Any thoughts. I am using a Dell 380.
First of all – remove the tag from your blinds. 😉
My wife has an older 64bit AMD laptop and all it does is kernel panic as well. Could it be your onboard ethernet? It’s a broadcom chip.
I would try disabling some items in the bios one by one. Disable something, try to boot. If it still panics, disable something else.
Not sure about your chipset, either. Intel G41 Express. Perhaps that’s the issue. If that’s the case, you may be SOL.
Could you help install ArnoldTheBats Chromium?
This is what I got.
—
early console in decompress_kernel
KASLR using RDTSC…
Decompressing Linux… Parsing ELF… Performing relocations… done.
Booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
[ 0.157282] atkbd serio1: probe failed
[ 0.514235] EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn’t mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 5.454702] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
—
Alt-F2 and that should show the console login. It should actually be running but graphics has failed.
You can try:
sudo su
mount -o remount, rw /
Xorg -configure
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot
As a test…
Thanks for your information.
This is very helpful, but unfortunately I could not launch Chromium.
There is an error like this
“(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device”
I found some useful information between the difference between hexx and arnoldthebat.
I think I have to launch X as root user.
I will try again…
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-os-checkins/zMRdPXB7_44/41uAPK7mtBYJ
http://pcmemo.take-uma.net/chromium%20os/chromiumos_build_virtualbox