Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.
All downloads are located at https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/. This will be updated daily where builds compile succcessfully..
Build Instructions for USB
- Linux
- Use p7zip to extract the IMG file from the downloaded file.
- At the shell, run the following (where sdX is your USB stick and ChromeOS.img is the path to the IMG file you extracted):
dd if=ChromeOS.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M - Boot from USB stick
- Windows
- Use 7zip to extract IMG file from the downloaded file.
- Use Win32 Image Writer, then select the IMG file and select the USB device from the menu.
- Click on “Write”.
- Boot from USB stick
All builds based on amd64 and ARM generic board.
If you want to install to your hard drive, follow the instructions here and here. Heed the warnings noted in the links!
Please note: there is a new behaviour with the chronos user password. The password has been removed from build R55-8777 onward and will continue to be removed for better overall security. Older builds have the password of ‘password’.
This means you need to use ‘chromeos-setdevpasswd’ from either shell or console to set your own password from build R55-8777 onwards.
By default, this also disables SSH access so if you also need this level of access, you will need to set a separate password using ‘sudo passwd chronos’. This allows the password for dev access and SSH access to remain separate if needed.
You can also just set a password using ‘sudo passwd chronos’ and this will allow for both dev and SSH access if you need to keep them the same. Do not use ‘chromeos-setdevpasswd’ if you want to keep the passwords the same.
Once installed, you can update from the Dev Server noted here.
Thanks to The Chromium Projects
Chromium OS GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Sorry Arnold,
One more message: the command “KASLR using RDTSC” follows “after decompressing kernel” and is then followed by “decompressing Linux”
Hans
Hi, I am using Chromium OS now for about 2 weeks (considering a Chromebook). I have an issue with my mouse speed: the speed is good when I push the mouse fast, but when I slow down, the pointer speed slows down as well which I found very annoying. Changing the mouse speed in the settings does not help. I am using a Bluetooth mouse and build Cx86OS-20140202010101.img.7z (due to the (former) password issues). Does anybody recognize this issue and know a solution? Thanks in advance.
Hi Arnold.
Chromium works perfect with my Dell Latitude incl. Touchpad and Flash.
I have only one question: Is it possible to use my own wallpaper?
Many thx,
Roland
HI Arnold,
I am new to chromium build environment and trying a few things of my own with it. As of now, I had followed the developer guide to build a existing image of kernel(obtained from repo sync) by following developer guide. I am successfully able to launch the OS image on my board. But now facing some issues in customizing it.
1. Can you please let me know the method/steps to build kernel and where shall i add my network driver in this framework? It seems below listed commands do not build kernel in /src/third_party/kernel/3.10
export BOARD=x86-generic
./setup_board –board=${BOARD}
./build_packages –board=${BOARD}
./build_image –board=${BOARD} –noenable_rootfs_verification dev
It seems I need to use cros_dev. Somehow i do not want to take much risk in default build. I am ok with default kernel and its configuration. just need to enable network driver and rebuild with same configuration. Please let me know command set to do that.
2. In the beginning , I had some issue with launching my image and had to apply a patch related to display driver to make it work on my board. Can you please let me know how to integrate this patch file in my image. This patch file has to be in /etc/init folder. As of now I am doing to manual copy/paste in /etc/init folder every time after image is installed on board. How can i know a package which keeps generic conf files in /etc/init/ and how to integrate the changes of that patch in the image. It seems it needs a good working knowledge on ebuild ? Please suggest some command set for same.
Regards,
Jeevan
Hi
You need to use cros_workon to use the kernel/3.10
Sample as follows:
cros_workon start --board=${BOARD} chromeos-kernel-3_10 repo sync cd ../../src/third_party/kernel-next # now add drivers and suchlike as required ./chromeos/scripts/kernelconfig editconfig cd ~/trunk/src/scripts ./build_packages --board=${BOARD} ./build_image --board=${BOARD} --noenable_rootfs_verification dev #when you are done, stop and go back to default cros_workon stop --board=${BOARD} chromeos-kernel-3_10Thanks! Your build and touchpad fix reinvigorated an old Acer 5570z i had laying around. SWEET little machine for browsing the net in the living room. Everything looks to work great!
Hi,
First, I’m french, so sorry for my english speaking.
I have written the ISO to my USB stick, next I have booted from it.
But it doesn’t work. I obtain this message :
early console in decompress_kernel
KASLR using RDTSC…
Decompressing Linux… Parsing ELF… Performing relocations… done.
Booting the kernel.
Then, after few seconds, the computer reboot, and I obtain the same message, but this time, the message stays for all time.
Can you help me please, I have seen people have the same problem, but it is not solved.
Thanks for you help.
Romain
I have the same, did you get it working back in 2014 😉
Do you remember how?
Got the latest build on a live usb and running on an Acer Aspire 532h.
I do not seem to be able to change the wallpaper – option is there, no wallpapers load and clicking custom does nothing. Is this related to the fact I have a usb version – might this work if I install on a hard drive?
Guy
You should mention that you can get mp3/flash support with one of those scripts:
http://zzsethzz.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page_2456.html
https://gist.github.com/rikels/4031126
https://github.com/sixsixfive/chromiumos
Tried a few different builds and will continue to do so. Attempting to perform local install to an i3 Intel NUC (Core i3-3217UDC3217BY). Camd64OS-20140420010101 identifies the wifi and has no problem with video hardware. Everything is extremely awesome and works pretty well, right up until the point where I wish to install to the Nuc’s internal 25GB SSD.
No matter what tact I take, or what googly-hint I find and follow (so far), /I have the same issue.
usr/bin/chromeos-install does a removeable media check, announces that the installation media (in my case /dev/sdb) “does not appear to be removeable” and exits back to prompt .
Have tried this with two other thumb drives, a new SSD and 2 different images. I get the same results. Wager that this is something obvious, but I have not found it.
Try chromeos-install –skip_dst_removeable –dst=/dev/whatever.
chromeos-install –help should give you more options…
Hi, I have been trying to install (or try) chrome os on my Dell Mini 10 (Atom processor) and it has been a little bit of a challenge for me as I don’t have a clear idea what is going on or how to fix it.
I have created the bootable usb on my mac as you indicated somewhere here:
> sudo dd if=~/Downloads/chromeos.img of=/dev/disk1 bs=4m
But when I try to boot of the stick I get a ” Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,5)” then the system halts.
The netbook has Windows 7 Starter installed and I got no idea if ntfs is screwing my boot process or what.
Can I get some pointers? what am I doing wrong?
(I am downloading ubuntu to wipe this machine hard drive to try again… but in case it doesn’t work, what is that kernel failure?)
I only get a panic occured on booting on my Toshiba Satellite C660. (tweeted you a ‘screencapture’)
It seems only the multi version will work on it.
Any chance this version can get an update as well? It’s pretty old and I am missing out on all the cutting edge goodness.
It hurts. 😉
Ill try to get a new multi build out soon!
Can you add the wifi drivers for the Toshiba Satellite C660? (Atheros)
Also I noticed special builds are 32 bit only. If possible can we get 64 bit as well?
It would be nice to get my old eee pc 901 running on chromium but wifi doesn’t work. Any chance of including the rt2860 wifi drivers ? They appear to be in the chromium git repository already.
Added to the list of things to add to a special build!
Just an FYI on the PDF/Flash etc. front. I tried all of these on a 32bit build from 4/28/2014 with no luck:
I did however have luck with
This worked for about 90% of everything. It gives occasional goofiness on youtube, and for some reason Spotify just throws errors – which is unfortunate because that was the main reason I wanted flash in the first place lol!
Does anyone know of more recent ones that do work, or that get the google drive integration working again? Also, I was debating doing the ‘upgrade’ to full Chrome per zzSethzz
http://zzsethzz.blogspot.com/2013/02/install-chromium-upgrade-it-to-chrome.html
Has anyone done that successfully, and will that then give full flash and other codecs? Sounds like it would totally be worthwhile … just curious about other experience.
Anyways thanks all!
Hello arnoldthebat;
I’ve booted build Cx86OS-20140430010101 on a 4 GB usb drive on a Toshiba Satellite Pro U400 and everything but the trackpad and trackpad keys seems to be working fine, I’ve been using a usb wireless mouse, is there a way to get the trackpad functioning ?
Thank you,
Ron
Have a look at http://arnoldthebat.co.uk/wordpress/2013/01/08/how-to-get-the-touch-pad-working-in-chromium-os/
I just installed the last amd64 weekly build in a asus ux31a (zenbook) and everything goes awesome!!
Flash working with https://github.com/sixsixfive/chromiumos
Some small issues (some rare effects). I didn’t find how to manage the screen brightness. It looks like the drivers is doing well, because when I unplug the adapter, the bright goes lower. I’ll investigate about that.
The brightness is working fine with f6 f7. It isn’t my default’s laptop setup, but it’s not big deal.
I realized than the kernel is working without pstate driver, only acpi-cpufreq. It used to work fine with my laptop, but the battery life was very poor. So I switched from ondemand governor to powersave, and the battery life is much more better now (intel advises than for processors after sandy bridge you shouldn’t use ondemand, just powersave or performance).
I have a multiboot with debian, my system is uefi, and everything runs great.
But I don’t have hangouts working… someone? Will a gentoo binary for google-talkplugin work here?
testing this for amd64: https://github.com/sixsixfive/chromiumos/tree/master/dev-amd64
My asus n56vj also has an intel HD 4000 graphics like your zenbook. But the difference is that it also has nvidia graphics too in the form of nvdia optimus.
My doubt is that if it does have the intel HD 4000 graphics, and a lot of users here have reported these builds to be working fine on those notebooks, why doesnt it work on mine. As far as i know if the drivers arent present for nvidia, the default intel HD 4000 should be used, but its not the case with me.
I am ok if intel is used instead of nvidia for the chromium os goodness.
Any one here with optimus h/w and any image working for him?
Ok jixbo, thanks for pointing out that Camd64OS-20140504010101.img works for HD4000.
As i had doubted, that intel should be used if nvdia drivers are absent, thats true, as i have now a WORKING chromiumos image on my ASUS N56VJ with nvidia GT635M Optimus graphics.
So the vanilla image works on Optimus too.
Ill try to compare the xorg logs today of the working image with the nonworking ones that i shared here few days back here.
The bottom line is that on optimus h/w it is not mandatory to have an image with nvidia drivers,intel works, and the ui fluidness was awsome.. the real AURA goodness can only be felt on a chromioumos not on the regular aura chromium browser on linux.
To my surprise, everything works out of the box even bluetooth and wifi aswell. I always struggle with my logitech bluetooth mouse even on win8(win8 crap always forgets the pairing on reboot) but on chromiumos it works damn well.
The only h/w issue that i found is the sleep/wakeup which seems to be broken. I just need to find a way to disable sleep and turn the display off instead of sleep.. that would be a good compromise. 😉 Secondly i have a doubt that i dont see the transparency on top window borders and the maximize and close buttons,mine is almost opaque.is this due to chromiumos and not chrome os? Also when i try to change the wallpaper, i dont get the wallpaper images populated in the wallpaper app. Any ideas about these minor issues?
btw the update method did not work for me on both URLs, i tried 3-4 times yesterday.
And,Thanks Arnold! for all this that you do, wouldnt have been possible without your dedication here!
I’m attempting to boot Chromium OS from USB on my small netbook. After the Chromium screen appears, screen goes blank and then computer shuts off. I’ve tried three different builds/images, and the same thing happens with each one. i run first chrome os build in 2010, it work fine but new build, it go to bug. any one can help me ?
my laptop specification
10.2inch TFT screen(1024*600)
Prossesor: Intel ATOM N270 Frequency: 1.6GHZ
Motherboard：:INTEL 945GSE+INCH7M
Graphics card:intel GM950
memory:1G (up to 2G)
hard disk: device: 160GB (up to 250gb)
CD-ROM : optional
Camera：BUILT-IN
LAN: built in 10/100m Ethermet
Built in Wifi wireless network, 802.11B/G
2.0 USB PORT: 2* USB PORT
1* Card slot: support SD/MMC/MS/MS-PRO
1* output LCD
1*LAN RJ45
1*DC-IN
1*microphone output
1*headphone output
3pcs LI-battery, last for 2.5 hours(10.8V/30w)
Network adapter
input:100-240v/50-60mhz 1.7A
Output: 19v 3.5A
CPU: 65W
Size:L*W*H 251mm*185mm*34mm
Wight:1.2KG (include battery)
Accessories: adapter, battery, manual, CD
Hey Arnold, like many I have graphics issues with running your builds (I tried even the older ones) but anyway I wanted to report here in case you can fix it.
My configuration is: Core 2 Duo P8600, 4GB of RAM, nVidia 9700M GTS, Intel Wifi. After booting, screen freezes on “Booting the kernel” but I can get to console with CTRL ALT F2 and from there everything seems to run fine. I’ve tried your special build (both of them) however nothing is different. When I tried to run Xorg -configure it just displayed some weird error about the number of screens being wrong.
Hope this helps, and you can fix it.
Also, I saw you are mentioning a newer special build, any ETA on that? I would really like to try it.
Cheers.
Hi
New custom build should be out in a week or so…
I’m running on an Aspire One (532h-2730), and it’s working pretty well – enough that I’m carrying it around at work for mail and web and what-not.
I’ve noticed in GMail Off-Line (and a couple of other sites) that text does not show up as it is typed, but the text (and typos) will appear once I’ve hit “Enter” and started a new line. Also, some pop-up menus (such as the account at the bottom of GMail Off-Line), when clicked, are not visible but show instead some of the outline of the menu.
Last night, in a session of light-weight troubleshooting, I tried adding lines to xorg.conf to disable compositing, but that made no difference. Are there other tips perhaps to dumb down X11 to prevent this sort of thing?
Hey Arnold, it’s me again. A little help here? I’m trying to run Chrome OS (not Chromium OS) in VMWare Workstation 10 using your build as a base. So far this is what I’ve done:
1. Downloaded the latest VDI build from your site
2. Converted it to vmdk and created a VMX Virtual Machine (also changed ethernet to Intel adapter, so network works; changed drive type to SATA, otherwise kernel panic)
3. Resized virtual hard drive and used a gparted live iso to resize last two partitions so I have enough space
4. Your chromium OS boots, but graphics are broken
5. Switched to console with CTRL ALT F2, working
6. Switched to developer mode with sudo touch /mnt/stateful_partition/.developer_mode
7. Downloaded script from http://goo.gl/4suhf
8. Ran it, used Lenovo x131e 2GB recovery image
9. Rebooted VM
10. Chrome OS BOOTS SUCCESSFULLY with graphics and everything working (even sound)
11. There is a warning about wrong hardware id, I skip it
12. Can’t login with my google account, I get “Can’t verify your email/password”, guest mode gives the same message (wtf), can’t register new google account same error (wtf x2)
Network is working, I can ping google.com from console, I changed local time to my timezone, so time is correct, but still can’t login.
Did you encounter this before? Is it possible that google server is just denying me cause of wrong hardware id? Do you know where ChromeOS stores hardware id?
Sorry for long message, hope you can help me.
Do you have an idiots’ guide for installing as a VMWare Virtual Machine?
I forgot to add: Base O/S Windows 8.1
Not really. Its just a case of tinkering to find the right settings….
Hi Arnold, just wanted to try Chromium OS and your x64 (10 May) is working wonderfully on USB.
Though, I hope you can help me for the hard drive install. After the installation, I have something like :
Boot image A
Boot image B
Verified image A
Verified image B
Alternative USB boot
None of,them works :S What should I do ?
P.S : for those having the “Booting the kernel.” bug, I noticed that I had to keep my mouse moving until the login thing appears… can’t see any explanation for that though lol
Not seeing that on my test laptops so not a lot I can offer other than have a google and see what others are trying to do to fix.
Ok that is in UEFI mode, I can’t launch in legacy mode (it says that it doesn’t find any OS on my hard drive) unless I use like a live cd and choose “boot from hard drive”. Is there a flag I should put somewhere ?
Also, I can manage to boot it but it will then be stucked. I checked logs and it seems it doesn’t load KMS (I have a radeon graphic card) but that is really weird since KMS is loaded when I try Chromium OS from my USB drive. Do you have any idea ? 🙂
Thanks ! 😀
Try disabling EFI on your Motherboard settings.
I can’t install chrome os in my hdd
commend “install” doesn’t work what happend
same /usr/sbin/chromeos-install doesn’t work …..
how can I do install my hdd?
Hey Arnold, it’s me again. A little help here? I’m trying to run Chrome OS (not Chromium OS) in VMWare Workstation 10 using your build as a base. So far this is what I’ve done:
1. Downloaded the latest VDI build from your site
2. Converted it to vmdk and created a VMX Virtual Machine (also changed ethernet to Intel adapter, so network works; changed drive type to SATA, otherwise kernel panic)
3. Resized virtual hard drive and used a gparted live iso to resize last two partitions so I have enough space
4. Your chromium OS boots, but graphics are broken
5. Switched to console with CTRL ALT F2, working
6. Switched to developer mode with sudo touch /mnt/stateful_partition/.developer_mode
7. Downloaded script from http://goo.gl/4suhf
8. Ran it, used Lenovo x131e 2GB recovery image
9. Rebooted VM
10. Chrome OS BOOTS SUCCESSFULLY with graphics and everything working (even sound)
11. There is a warning about wrong hardware id, I skip it
12. Can’t login with my google account, I get “Can’t verify your email/password”, guest mode gives the same message (wtf), can’t register new google account same error (wtf x2)
Network is working, I can ping google.com from console, I changed local time to my timezone, so time is correct, but still can’t login.
Did you encounter this before? Is it possible that google server is just denying me cause of wrong hardware id? Do you know where ChromeOS stores hardware id?
Sorry for long message, hope you can help me.
Great stuff!, got flash, hangouts working with https://github.com/sixsixfive/chromiumos/tree/master/testing
Any news regarding the new special build? 🙂
Cheers.
Still working on it!
hey Arnold, does these builts work with amd processors?
Hi,
Are you working on a new Special Broadcom build too?
Thx alot for your awsome work!
Yes. Its a little trickier since the 3.10 kernel fails to compile the broadcom source code (well mine anyway).. Ill sort it though and distribute soon
Sounds great Arnold, can’t wait too see if this can work on an old D630. But i’ll have to wait for the new one.. Tried the old one and by following your instructions, it rebooted and was unable to detect the wireless adapter (broadcom, integrated.). Perhaps your new release will work better. 🙂
Arnold,
First of all, you rock for doing all the work it takes to get these builds up to speed. I am running Chromium build 20140105010101 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5 with Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor. I cannot access my Google Drive files via the files app. Also, I cannot use the Docs app offline. Any suggestions? I have tried more recent builds, but they are unstable with my hardware. Hexxeh’s latest vanilla build works fine, but I am looking for a more recent stable build. Thanks again.
Hi. This is the fact I cannot distribute API keys for drive integration. Nothing I can do I’m afraid…
Have a look at https://plus.google.com/102544080837621901149/posts/gCEKYPzQhMY & http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys if you want to sort this yourself…
So Hexxeh’s latest vanilla uses some trick/workaround to get Google Drive working? Or api changes after last Hexxeh’s build?
No idea, you would really need to ask him!
Can someone confirm a build that works?
I’ve tried a few of the recent dailies under virtualbox on two systems.
In both cases I’ve tried with the intel MT desktop nic and the virtio nic.
I’ve tried connecting the drive image via sata and IDE.
I’ve also tried the two chipset options in the ‘system’ section – PIIX3 and ICH9.
I’ve also tried both the amd64 and x86 images.
In all combinations the system attempts to boot and then reboots or just seems to hang. It doesn’t get to the stage where I see a GUI.
Interestingly the last of Hexxeh’s ‘vanilla’ builds boots up OK.
This is a problem with Video drivers on VirtualBox. Nothing I can do at the moment Im afraid!
I have tried to use your vdi builds in latest virtualbox but they just keep rebooting. Extracted with p7.zip then moved folder to Virtualbox Vms. Set up a new machine pointing it too vdi file. It simply boots (kernel) then reboots. Am I doing somthing wrong? Is there a guide to using vdi?
Thanks
Hi
This is a problem with Video drivers. Nothing I can do at the moment Im afraid!
Hi Dudes,
I think you guys ignored Joshua there earlier. He wanted to control his services via rc-update.
I would also like to do the same in order to stop sshd. And the best I could do is
“stop openssh-server” (but the service restarts later unfortunately!)
I am really impressed with the chromebook. Maybe I should put that on Google+ instead. But I just like to say thankyou for providing the builds, the documentation and drivers/updates.
Best Regards
Aubrey.
regarding the problems with video drivers under virtualbox – are things working fine under Vmware or KVM?
No, console works but no video.
Video works if you try to use recovery for Lenovo x131e 2gb (stout image).
I’ve just the same image under KVM (virt-manager) and I don’t get video there either.
Hello.
I downloaded one of your builds, got the image onto my flash drive, and booted up using the flash drive. Chromium worked quite well: my WiFi signal was detected, and I was able to set up and use the OS.
However, when I shut down Chromium OS, took out my flash drive, and tried to boot Windows 8.1 up again: it wouldn’t boot. I have an HP DV6, and the boot-up procedure is usually as follows:
– black screen [boot menu can be entered here]
– HP logo
– black screen
– Windows 8 time and date screen
After having used Chromium from the flash drive once, I get the following:
– black screen
– HP logo
– black screen
In this case, the black screen does not go away and the Windows time and date screen does not load (even after several hours).
Other Information: In order to start up from the flash drive, I had to enable “Legacy Mode” in my computer’s boot menu. Then, when I wanted to start up Windows, I disabled Legacy Mode again.
I’ve consulted some people and they say that Chromium OS corrupted my Master Boot Record, and that’s why Windows is unable to start up.
Also, I fixed this problem by having Windows go back to a previous restore point. I still want to use Chromium OS though, so could you please try to fix this ?
After reading your comment Danny, I just wanted to chime in and please ignore me if Arnold has anything specific to say on the matter. I’ve booted Arnold’s builds of chromium os on many different type of computers from the flash drive and have never seen the problem you described, so I’m not sure there is anything to fix with the build. To corrupt the Master boot record it seems to me that one would have to try to install something on the windows drive itself, which shouldn’t happen from just booting a flash drive. My best guess is that changing something in the Bios made Windows 8 unresponsive, maybe changing it to legacy mode (you could test it by doing it again and seeing if it messes anything up). Otherwise at some point in using Chromium OS you tried to install something to the Windows drive.
Its a bit of an odd problem, but I think it maybe something more to your particular computer than to Chromium OS itself. Again if someone else has more information, I’d like to know as well.
Hello arnold,
To install the drivers in my elementary os, I used
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc.tar.bz2
for Ethernet and for the Wifi Drivers I used
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723au.git
having dowloaded both drivers, I used the make and sudo make install to install the driver and they worked. Is there anything I can use from these two files so that I can get my wifi and or ethernet work for Chrome OS ?
Hi Arnold,
I tried to follow your instructions in order to put Chromium OS on my hdd but I encountered some issues.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide#TOC-Installing-your-Chromium-OS-image-t
Installing your Chromium OS image to your hard disk
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install
[ Ctrl ] [ Alt ] [ T ] to get the crosh shell.
crosh> shell
chronos@localhost / $ sudo su
localhost / # /usr/sbin/chromeos-install
initctl: Unknown instance:
Error: can not determine destination device. Specify –dst yourself.
Running a hw diagnostics test — this might take a couple minutes.
badblocks: No such file or directory while trying to determine device size
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.10.18] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
: Unable to detect device type
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.10.18] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
: Unable to detect device type
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.10.18] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
: Unable to detect device type
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
Thanks in advance for your help/tip on this.
Amko
I encountered this problem too. Don’t ask me why but I resolved doing this simple thing: instead of using “install” as command, use “install /dev/sda” (sda or wathever is your desired hd path, I’ve only one hd so sda is ok). I think that using “/usr/sbin/chromeos-install /dev/sda” will be the same.
I’m not an expert, so I would say you “don’t try this at home”, but if you are already ok with erasing your hd I don’t think this will hurt!
type install /dev/sda
Hey Arnold,
sorry to bother you again, but do you have any new regarding the new multi build?
Thanks for your work
‘Soon’ Im a bit busy at the moment but Ive made some progress to enable me to automate the builds. Ill let you know.
When i try to install chromium os it comes up with this:
initctl: Unknown instance:
Error: can not determine destination device. Specify –dst yourself.
Running a hw diagnostics test — this might take a couple minutes.
badblocks: No such file or directory while trying to determine device size
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.10.18] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
: Unable to detect device type
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
Any way to fix this?
Managed to run Chrome OS 34 in VMWare Workstation 🙂
http://nmilosev.svbtle.com/tips-for-running-chrome-os-not-chromium-os-in-vmware-may-2014
Hi,
Is there a certain build that needs to be used for the Asus Chromebox to boot it via USB? I’ve tried a few and neither seem to work.
Thanks
Hello.
I am trying to run your build on my workstation (VirtualBox) but I can’t do anything because of freeze at
http://i.imgur.com/3FEgVdu.png
I got the same problem, any fix for this?
Same here
I forgot to mention that I am getting this same screen using HP NC8430 with latest build (Cx86OS-20140609010101.img) and I am installing/running on USB with this machine first time. Any response to this would be appreciated. Let me know if there are any followup questions/suggestions.
hello, i need to know if someone know if exist any build of chormium or chrome that have a wireless drive of notebook DELL Inspiron 15 Intel (N5010)… i dont find anyone build that suport my wreless drive =/, “Dell Wireless WLAN 1501 Half Mini-Card Driver ” if some one can help me , i appreciate a lot of .
thanks for help =)
Just a follow up from my previous comment.
I’ve tried builds from roughly a week ago in Virt-Manager (ie:kvm/qemu) under linux with all the different video options (cirrus, QXL, VGA, VMVGA) . I get console mode video only when booting the VM.
Same problem on VirtualBox.
I understand that there’s been some change upstream and there’s nothing Arnold can do about it at this stage
Can anyone point to the last build that Video worked OK ?
I’m currently testing it on a USB stick.
However I don’t seem to be able to change the keyboard layout, from US to DE_CH
I tried to change it via loadkeys but didn’t work either.
Is this a know bug?
Same problem here: I’m unable to switch on Italian keyboard layout. Has anyone solved this issue?
I cannot write in Italian without accent letters
Hey @arnold ! Nice work but would it be possible to compile it with 3.10 kernel and the latest mesa (I have AMD A8 with redeon) I belive something called Gallium works xD O_O
The latest builds are already 3.10 kernel. Its baked in to the x86 generic config
Hi there, I managed to install ChromiumOS just fine on my laptop, it’s working well. After trying many codec scripts I managed to get flash working which is great because I can now listen to Google Music. Couple of things that are broken for me though.
Google Drive integration. It’s not working and I have a feeling it’s to do with the API… The following is the log generated:
Event Log
2014-05-31T11:24:27.214: [info] Push notification is registered
2014-05-31T11:24:27.214: [info] Drive mount point is added
2014-05-31T11:24:31.060: [info] Push notification is disabled
2014-05-31T11:24:33.421: [info] Push notification is enabled
2014-05-31T11:24:34.328: [info] Push notification is enabled
2014-05-31T11:24:36.180: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.getVolumeMetadataList[0] succeeded. (results: ‘[/home/chronos/user/Downloads, /special/drive-6718344cde2f53104f58f04960430c3bb3c3a990]’, 2 mount points)
2014-05-31T11:24:36.327: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.requestFileSystem[1] succeeded. (elapsed time: 136ms)
2014-05-31T11:24:36.327: [info] Job queued: TYPE_GET_ABOUT_RESOURCE STATE_NONE [1] – METADATA_QUEUE pending: 1, running: 0
2014-05-31T11:24:36.544: [info] Job started: TYPE_GET_ABOUT_RESOURCE STATE_RUNNING [1] – METADATA_QUEUE pending: 0, running: 1
2014-05-31T11:24:36.725: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.requestFileSystem[2] succeeded. (elapsed time: 520ms)
2014-05-31T11:24:36.791: [warning] Job done: TYPE_GET_ABOUT_RESOURCE STATE_RUNNING [1] => HTTP_FORBIDDEN (elapsed time: 463ms) – METADATA_QUEUE pending: 0, running: 0
2014-05-31T11:26:36.788: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.getPreferences succeeded.
2014-05-31T11:26:37.430: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.getDriveConnectionState succeeded.
2014-05-31T11:26:37.432: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.getVolumeMetadataList[8] succeeded. (results: ‘[/home/chronos/user/Downloads, /special/drive-6718344cde2f53104f58f04960430c3bb3c3a990]’, 2 mount points)
2014-05-31T11:26:37.666: [info] CWS OAuth token fetch succeeded.
2014-05-31T11:26:37.834: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.getPreferences succeeded.
2014-05-31T11:26:38.053: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.requestFileSystem[16] succeeded. (elapsed time: 0ms)
2014-05-31T11:26:38.066: [info] Job queued: TYPE_GET_ABOUT_RESOURCE STATE_NONE [2] – METADATA_QUEUE pending: 1, running: 0
2014-05-31T11:26:38.067: [info] Job started: TYPE_GET_ABOUT_RESOURCE STATE_RUNNING [2] – METADATA_QUEUE pending: 0, running: 1
2014-05-31T11:26:38.068: [info] fileBrowserPrivate.requestFileSystem[17] succeeded. (elapsed time: 2ms)
2014-05-31T11:26:38.116: [warning] Job done: TYPE_GET_ABOUT_RESOURCE STATE_RUNNING [2] => HTTP_FORBIDDEN (elapsed time: 50ms) – METADATA_QUEUE pending: 0, running: 0
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Secondly, MP3/MP4 and Java refuse to install, but I read somewhere that they’re monumentally broken in Chromium at the moment so it’s not much of a problem as I have Flash and all my music is in the cloud anyway.
Hi,
Do any of you guys know how to boot chromium on a amd A6-1450 apu. For some reason hexxeh builds work, but I cant get these builds to work. These look alot better, so please if anyone know 🙂
Hi, have just tried CARMOS-201430010101using a 4gb stick on my Acer One and it runs great.
Just one query when I start Chromium it loads the web browser and then the File window. Can I alter it so it just opens the browser?
Many thanks
Is gdrive now working in this build?
Try it and see. A number of people have found workarounds I believe.
run this script: http://goo.gl/qeisbf – tada
Any way I can install this Ethernet driver into my chromeos build ? http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc.tar.bz2