Hi All
Its been a while (and thanks for being patient!) but I’ve just released a new special build at the following link: http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R41-6500.0-Special.7z
This should have much better support for Radeon which I’ve tested using a Dell Studio 1555:
- Graphics – loads the Radeon Module (full 1920-1080 HD in this case) – working
- Sound (Radeon HDMI) – working
- Touchpad (Synaptics) – working
- Intel Wireless – working
As for Radeon cards supported, the build should support all listed firmware here.
No Broadcom or other wireless drivers yet since these are for the next phase, but keep testing and feed back on what works or otherwise.
Happy testing!
Can you possibly build a version that can be installed using YUMI?
It seems to me that ChromeOS is a bit harder to run and install in a USB than any other OS.
I have 64 GB usb, with multiple linux distro, 3 different version of windows, zorin, and I would like to add ChromeOS if in there if possible, I been searching for everywhere and all the information I can find related to ChromeOS requires to format that USB stick which I really don’t want to do.
Thanks
Hi. Im not going to be able to do that, sorry!
No Problem, I bet that is just how ChromeOS was design. Thanks again.. (rock)
The installation of ChromiumOS is simpler than you’re making it out to be. The USB disk image is a requirement from the Google source code…
USB disks are like $10 US for 32Gb. My suggestion is you find a dual-pack of 16 or 8Gb USB’s and make one a 64-bit Chromium and the other a 32-bit Chromium disk.
That way you’ll have everything sorted nicely. Linux on your YUMI disk and the two flavours of Chromium on the other two.
I know this isn’t what you necessarily wanted but it’s an elegant option.
I don’t know why but everytime I install ChromeOS on a USB, the USB is no longer readable by windows.
and there are like 8 partition on the usb when I check using disk part
Search and download “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool”. This will fix up the usb drive.
Its pretty simple if you follow the standard installation, but finding a way to install it in a drive along with different OS or in a specific partition is a bit complicated
Hey i am using ubuntu 14.04 on my intel atom netbook and i write yor x86image to my 4gb pendrive but my computer doesnt boots why ? (usb drive is in 1. Boot devcice) hexxeh and your builds writed an usb tested on qemu its fine but whyyyy my computer doesnt boots
http://m.bilio.com/laptop-c3100/probook/prbu1010-p138272585/#tab=spec
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dogukan, your exceptionally rude later post (which I wont share) doesn’t make me want to assist you in any way. Apologise or Ill ban you.
Hey i am sorry but for 3 days i am waiting for you over a month i am waiting for this answer pls help
İ am going to crazy my netbook is very slow even in ubuntu unity and i found hexxeh build doesnt work i searchhed for a month but i cant find anything then i found your build i asked 3-4 days ago and last week i have reaaly important exams and i can look bere once a day. over 3 days i am going to crazy please help me i am really sorry about that world
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I fix things in my spare time (and cannot fix everything since its beyond my current knowledge). You will need to learn to be patient.
If your netbook is that slow, try running http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ from a pen drive. ChromiumOS may well never work on your netbook.
Ok and i will try Bundgie desktop its very looks like chrome os or i can install Evolve OS (which comes with bundgie desktop)
Budgie desktop still is not stable.. And you need a lightweight desktop, like lubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop
For now i am Using gnome metacity and its very fast on ubuntu 14.04 but niwhen i change to Compiz effects was very slow because i cant find my gma3600 driver and it uses my cpu . İ will continue with metacity
You probably wrote the image to your USB the wrong way. Use the following terminal command, but BE CAREFUL TO USE THE RIGHT DISK or you’ll nuke your OS.. You have been warned.
dd if= of=/dev/sdc
The
/dev/sdc
bit is the most important, this is the USB drive you plugged in. You can check which device you need to use withdmesg
and/ormount
Correction, should be
dd if=[path to image] of=/dev/sdc
, I forgot I can’t use lesser-than or greater-than here.Good job, thanks for all your work.
A little problem though, I am failing to install flash. Ive been looking at guides from https://gist.github.com/rikels/4031126 and using http://goo.gl/FrT7Q6 or http://goo.gl/JL1An5. None working. Do you have any suggestions for your builds?
None, sorry. Just keep googling and others will assist.
Try this link, but I give no promises or guarantees. It’s what works on the laptops I’ve been using:
http://link.brash.ca/flash
HEY! THanks! Its finally working with this script.
I am on a NOBRAND CHINESE x64 PC. Its running celeron 1037u processor,.
Running arnoldthebat x64 img from 3rd of december.
have you tried this? https://docs.google.com/a/share.epsb.ca/document/d/1CHpSBY-_RZagEkAwePMWTKsZgD_I6fl3lfrt58Tbwu0/edit?usp=sharing
This takes like 15 seconds to complete if wireless is working well.
Logon as tech that is administrator of the machine.
Ctrl + Alt + F2
login: chronos
password: ##Password##
sudo su
##Password##
curl -L http://goo.gl/JL1An5 | bash
Capitals count in the above command. Watch character case.
Instruction refence : https://gist.github.com/rikels/4031126
Hi There,
Thanks for this build, I installed it on my USB drive and seems to work fine, only issue is the mousepad is not working,
I bet this is some kind of driver compatibility,
Cheers
More than likely, anything in lspci as to the touchpad type?
found a post regarding touchpad drivers and that sort the issue.
I tried booting off of a USB with this image on a Dell Latitude E6520 in both UEFI and legacy modes – UEFI mode at least gets to the GRUB boot screen (though none of the choices work), but legacy mode doesn’t even get past the kernel decompression and boot before stopping at a black screen. To elaborate on the UEFI mode – local images A and B boot, but then a black screen with garbled artifacts is all they boot to; nothing past this stage from what I can tell. Verified images A and B just boot to black screens, nothing after that.
This happens to my Dell Latitude E5420 with any recent x86 Chromium Build including this. Any suggestions ?
Graphics Ill bet..
Any chance you can get to text login? Ctrl-Alt-F2 should do it. Then get the output of dmesg & /var/log/Xorg.0.conf. That laptop also looks to have Intel GMA 3000 so Ill need to review that as well…
I tried Ctrl-Alt-F2 – no luck, I see the same screen artifacts.
Bugger. Back to the drawing board for that then!
And what happens if you plug in an external monitor? If possible, of course.
Haven’t done so at the moment – will need to try as soon as I can (which may not be anytime soon).
I would love to see some updates that add support for the Surface Pro. With the changes in June making ChromeOS more usable with touch-screens, I’d really love to have my Surface running ChromiumOS with full support.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+Teardown/12842
You can find all the components for it here. So far, with the nightlies, display is working right, but the magnetic snap-on keyboard isn’t being recognized adn seeing as I can’t connect to WiFi, I can’t test anything else.
Hope this is handy for you, I’ll keep an eye out for updates!
Nice one! Can you confirm the WiFi so I can have a look?
Hey there, thanks for replying.
WIndows 8.1 reports the network card as a “Marvell AVASTAR 350N Wireless Network Controller”
Further research states it is the “Avastar 88W8797” chipset.
Hope this helps!
I have tested this build on HD5850 and I am sorry to report that it does not work for me.
It load the logo screen but will immediately spit out this:
flashrom:2026 map pfn expected mapping type uncached-minus for [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff], got writeback
Not sure about this error but it hangs OS.
OK, does it actually hang the OS or do you just get a black screen? Can you type Crtl-Alt-F2 to get to chronos login?
If so, could you post the output of dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.conf to http://pastebin.com/ and pop the links here?
You should be able to ssh from a separate machine if its on your network…
I’m having the same issue as Justas, but on an HD5450. After the logo, I’m dropped to an all-white screen with a mouse cursor. At high-resolution at least. Lots of crashes in dmesg. X log looks fine though. Hope these help.
dmesg – http://pastebin.com/2RhrJh0W
Xorg.0.log – http://pastebin.com/a3EBqKGs
Have a same problem too. White screen with cursor and nothing else…
Same for me on the Asus 1215B (AMD Brazos / HD6320), except I’m on a black screen. Mouse works though, which is a plus.
Hello there, happy new year 🙂
My 2 cents: Same error here on Asus Eeepc:
flashrom:7245 map pfn expected mapping type unchached-minus for item [mem 0x000000000.0x00003fff], got write-back.
Hey
First of all thank you for making this possible 🙂
I’m quite new to all this, but i’ve dual booted my laptop with Ubuntu succesfully. This however is giving me more trouble…
I have an old dell vostro (AMD64) and tried installing the latest special build on it. I get the same error as above…
Any progress on a fix?
I am having a heck of a time getting my intel 5100 to work, I see it’s there and working but for some reason rfkill turns off the radio on boot. If I run dmesg it shows rf_kill bit toggled to disable radio
Nm factory resetting the bios fixed it, thanks
Nice one. I need rf_kill for if I ever fix the broadcom again so don’t really want to turn it off!
Arnold, can we manual apply the broadcom wireless driver on you latest build? If yes could you give me a hint to start?
The build boots fine from the USB pendrive, on Lenovo IdeaPad S10e A16-4068, Atom N270
Ethernet is Fine, but wireless not
Audio is a bit laggy, video on youtube runs fine up to 480p, but 720p is kinda laggy
You are the best on Chrome OS support man!!! Merry Christimas !!!
Yes of course you can. Ive not built a new wl.ko however since it keeps crashing the OS when applied as a module. I need to figure that bit out 1st! You can of course apply your own..
Just a thank you from me. Would love to see the Broadcom drivers build when you get chance – but I imagine automation is higher on your list (rightly so)!
Still running Dec 2013 Broadcome special build on HP Mini 110. FYI – The only downside is that Gmail moans about Chrome version and that it’s not possible to get Flash running on a old build, meaning Google Music won’t stream. Don’t stop the Mrs shopping, tho. 😉
Thanks again, MrTheBat, much appreciate.
Thx for the build, its worth-waiting for. It would be much better if you can merge this “special” edition to the build bot, or a new update channel for us.
Yes, Im hoping to get a dev server out for this special build, once I have got enough functionality into it..
I don’t understand what I’m missing….
I download the file from link, extracted with 7z, wrote with Win32 to USB….
I can not get it to boot
Not working on my Acer Aspire V5-123-12104G50nss with AMD Radeon HD 8210 nor on my early 2008 iMac 8,1 with ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics. 🙁
Have you tried an Xorg – configure?
When will there be a realtek RTL8723AE WLAN driver avalible, because I practically need ChromeOS on my Toshiba satellite C8551TC
Added to the list. Ill build as soon as I can
can we use this method on it?
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
for wifi?
ive tried your special build with broadcom, but since my ethernet is broadcom too, i cant use it, but your latest build on daily or weekly has support natively for my broadcom ethernet.
is that normal?
thx in adv
Interesting! Ive not added anything to the daily/weekly build so it could just be more generic support. What wireless card do you use?
My wireless card is BCM4312, if the name is wrong the id is: VEN_ID: 14E4 / DEV_ID: 4515
My Ethernet is: VEN_ID: 14E4 / DEV_ID: 1713
On Special Multi 2, both don’t work, on latest daily builds R41 the ethernet works OOB
The audio is a bit laggy (Realtek VEN_ID: 10EC / DEV_ID: 0269), but I’ve still hasn’t tried any tutorial, touch pad is crazy (became too sensitive that it appears to be like airview of galaxy note), but works, if I apply the fix for Snaptics, it became normal but without tap to click.
My netbook is a Lenovo S10e 4068-A16, with Intel Atom 1.6 GHz, 2 GB of RAM (standard chip slot, my model don’t have the fixed 512 MB chip of S10 or S10-2), Video onboard Intel GMA 950 (GMA 945SE chipset underclocked to 166 MHz)
If I can provide any kind of log to help, because the main stream of netbook’s around the world are the same Atom chipset.
Found your site and wanted to try the install…Using a dell MINI 1018..
I booted up on USB drive, when to shell, typed in:
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install
getting: initctil: unknown instance: Error can ot determine the destination device. Specify –dst yourself.
I’m new to this, could be something simple…
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install –dst=/dev/sda
The above will format your hard drive so please understand that all your data will be lost!
I wanted to say thank you! I am having success running the I am using a Dell D630. I am having success booting the os off the usb drive, but every time I try to install it locally with the command that is provide (/usr/sbin/chromeos-install -dst=/dev/sda). I receive a “flags:WARN getopt: invalid option –“d”
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Kannan
Try 2 dashes –dst=/dev/sda
ArnoldTheBat’s special version of Chromium OS rocks! My install on Acer Aspire one ZG5 was a success; http://sakarinkurssit.blogspot.fi/2014/12/arnoldthebats-special-build-of-chromium.html
Glad it works for you. Bear in mind, it wont auto update yet since thats not completed
I see. When is update expected to work?
It will be a good while. I have lots to fix/prove out before hand..
thx for your efforts ATB! Happy 2015!
PS.: I want to help you build a BCM4312 support! thx again!
Thanks for this special build!
My wifi network controller is:
– Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)
And copying the fw /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin to same path from ubuntu installation works!
I’m trying to run this special build on a lenovo t61. All seems ok, except there’s a display issue. The shelf appears ok and works fine (pop-ups, etc), and the background is fine (mostly) but where the window should be to login, weird black rectangles appear. I can connect to wireless by using the shelf, and CTRL-ALT F2 works for a prompt… Any idea what command I can enter to download usable display drivers? (I think this is the issue).
Ive only got a selection of Intel GPU in the build. Ill see if I can add the ones in that device.
Thanks, ATB. Love your work.
Hi there, I tried the latest weekly build (Cx86OS-20150104010101) on an old Acer Aspire One (AOA150) and the WiFi does not seem to work. Pretty sure it has an Atheros card.
Thanks for your work, serves me well, I have worked with in the studies.
Currently I have a flash drive with the installed chrome os, but I would like pdoer install in vmware or virtualbox, but all my attempts to convert the .img to iso, or .vdi have failed, I could tell if there is any other way to create a virtual machine chrome os.
or alternatively, upload a file exported from chrome os installed on the virtualbox? Thank You
On Dell Optiplex 745 – Cx86OS_R33-5111_broadcom.7z
Switch Off – makes restart
unable to switch off/power off