Chromium OS

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
    1. Use p7zip to extract the IMG file from the downloaded file.
    2. 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
    3. Boot from USB stick
  • Windows
    1. Use 7zip to extract IMG file from the downloaded file.
    2. Use Win32 Image Writer, then select the IMG file and select the USB device from the menu.
    3. Click on “Write”.
    4. 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




2,715 thoughts on “Chromium OS”

  1. Hi! I am looking to see if it would be possible to bake in some sort of Radeon support for the old brazos E-series APU still supported in Catalyst or the open-source drivers. And a suggestion for some, have you guys tried using your android phones/phablet’s USB network tethering functions? might be a quick fix to get some of you online with the OS to try out.

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  2. Just out of curiosity is there going to be a build with Nvidia drivers? nouveau which is supposed to be substitute for Nvidia drives is not wotking on any of my 3 machines. I had managed to run only a x86 20140525 build on integrated on one of the PC’s but that got pushed out. So no luck. on top of that I spent a couple of days trying to build an image myself, but that got me nowhere…
    So I am curious to know if that is in the pipeline?

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      1. I managed to make my own image of ChromiumOS. Tried it on my Nvidia GPU’s. Played around with xorg.conf and both images mine and yours crash Xorg with an error like this:

        [drm] KMS not enabled
        No devices detected.

        Fatal server error:
        no screens found

        After googling around the info I have found says that this option should be enabled in kernel. The same goes for Nouveau website where they mention Nouveau DRM. So need to investigate it furtherer.

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        1. BTW.

          I went trough the log again and found another fault

          /dev/fb0 no such file or directory

          couple of lines before it seems that the module manages to load but stopes when it calles the frame buffer, this causes Xorg to go through different probe method which results leads to an error in post above.

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  3. hey guys vdi version build on my virtual machine. But it was error ext4-fs and piix4_smbus..

    What can i do for this ?

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      1. I’m able to get to the console, but I’d like to get into the GUI. Is there a way to that using VirtualBox? The console doesn’t really help me at the moment.

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          1. I cant get to console on vdi.. Then i did download img version, but i cant write to usb. Win32 Disk imager doesnt write it, (it say did it but usb is empty)

          3. I notice this is still true regardless of whether or not you’re using the vdi or converting the img to it with vboxmanage convertfromraw in Cx86OS-20141128010102. Is there any currently available image that does not have this problem?

          4. Hi,
            Any update on getting GUI/graphics on virtual machines? I’ve tried today’s amd64 VDI image on both Hyper-V and Virtualbox, and neither initialize any graphical modes. Thanks!

          5. None! I had success with the earlier special build in the fact the Xorg -configure would allow VMware graphics to work, but no success since.

            The latest special build has the VMware graphics driver built in but I must be missing something since its still not working!!

  4. Hi, I have installed the latest build 64bit image of Chromium OS on my Acer Vivobook S200E directly on the HD. From what I can see, everything is working like a charm, touch and everything. One thing I have noticed that is not working though is the Google drive files showing in the Files app. The build this is at the time of writing, version 41.0.2230.0 (wednesday 26 nov 2014). Is this someone that’s going to be fixed any time soon with any future updates? hope so. Thanks for the awesome builds. Very stable. So much faster than Windows when Chrome on windows 8.1 especially, is really really bogged down and takes ages for it to be responsive.

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      1. I’ve upgraded to the full Chrome OS (pixel build) on it now. Everything works completely flawlessly.

        I’m now trying to get Chrome OS up and running onto my iMac. Chromium is installed, but the only thing in the way is the ATI Radoon graphics. Are you going to create a 64bit version of the multi driver image? And will I be able to upgrade that to the official chrome OS? Really want to achieve this have chrome is running on my mac along with OS X, and my other OS’. Seems that the only thing in the way is those graphics.

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          1. Can confirm that Chromium OS works out of the box on 2012 Mac Mini i7 due to it having just the intergrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. Would work out of the box on my iMac if it wasn’t for the ATI Radoon graphics card, though I’m not sure what the intergrated graphics will be like if I manage to disable the card in Chromium and also I use an External secondary monitor.

  6. Thanks for all the hard work making available for everyone. I have downloaded the OS for x86. Its running fine from the USB. I want to install it on hard drive. The links you have given are fine but difficult to do. Is there any easy way or guide to make it?

    It also say that, installation will clean wipe the hard drive. Is that true only for installation partition or irrespective of partition, it will completely delete the whole hard drive?
    Thanks again.

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    2. Pravin – it will completely wipe the entire hard drive and partition/format the hard drive into about 12 partitions for different uses.

      It sounds like you know the command to install it. If you don’t want to lose anything on the hard drive, don’t install it. If you’re ok with it reformatting that computer completely, then go ahead.

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  7. hi arnold
    im using Camd64OS-20141201010102.img on my lenovo T430
    when im trying to enable mp3/mp4 by using libffmpegsumo.so library form unstable google-chrome (im grab that library from my fedora) , only mp3 file can be played, mp4 file cant playing only black screen i get
    im dig some log and found this line :
    ERROR:vaapi_video_decode_accelerator.cc(568)] Error decoding stream
    im disabled Hardware acceleration video encode by add this (–disable-accelerated-video-decode) in /etc/chrome_dev.conf
    and now mp4 video was working
    i think this some problem with vaapi, my vainfo :
    ibva info: VA-API version 0.35.1
    libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
    libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/i965_drv_video.so
    libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_35
    libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
    vainfo: VA-API version: 0.35 (libva 1.3.1)
    vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile – 1.3.2
    vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
    VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
    VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
    VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
    VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
    VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
    VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
    VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
    VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD

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  8. Another newbie to Chromium, sorry. Downloaded Dec 2, 2014 build, installed to USB with Win32 Disk Imager. Doesn’t boot on the two machines I’ve tried, an HP dc5700 with a Core 2 Duo and a Dell Vostro with an i3. What sort of hardware should boot this successfully? or have I corrupted the image along the way somewhere, and should try again?

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      2. Hey, I keep getting this

        Error: Source does not look like a removable device: /dev/sda

        when i try it with

        /usr/sbin/chromeos-install command 

        help?

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          1. This still gave me same error. I tried with the newest build, but wifi didn’t work on that build

  11. Hi Arnold,

    Thanks for your awesome works. I have few question if you or other could help me with that :

    I have a pc with 16GB of RAM and CORE i5 4th Gen CPU and 1 160 GB HDD and Nvidia gt640 2gb GPU.

    I downloaded your amd64 img and try to boot but it failed but when i downloaded your x86 img i can boot and everything goes fine. why i cannot use 64bit version.

    and my other question and i don’t know if this is a good question or not but i give it a shot, i try to upgrade my chromium os x86 to chrome os by some guid on the internet but for almost 6 time i failed to upgrade and i always get black screen but i can go to the shell using ctrl + alt + f2 but now graphic working. Do you know how can i fix it.

    Thanks again and Best Regards

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  13. I downloaded a x86 build and created the usb using the image writer. But my Sony Vaio E Series doesn’t boot. What could be wrong. Please help.

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    1. Hi Arnold
      I tried with the latest special build as well. The image write seems to be happening, but when I try to boot with the usb drive the screen goes blank and nothing happens.

      Please help on this.

      Regards

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        1. i get the same thing after an update and am able to get to a command prompt w/ ctl alt f2 (trying this via virtualbox on macbook air)

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          1. Same issue. Blank screen after splash screen. Can get to command prompt, but am unsure what to do next and Internet is lacking in answers.

  14. Hey Arnold,
    I’m kinda new, but I was trying to use your Camd64OS-20141215010101 build off of a USB, but when it boots up I can’t connect to wifi, the access points aren’t showing up. When I boot into Windows though, all the access points are there and wifi is working just fine. My network card is a Ralink RT5930 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter. Help would be greatly appreciated!

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  15. Hi Arnold

    First of all, excuse me my bad english as it is not my native language. I want to make you to know that I was able to boot the last weekly x86 image build troughout my android rooted device (Motorola Xoom) with drivedroid apk on an ASUS EEEPC netbook. It is mandatory to set the usb in writeable mode in the apk in order to boot. I just want to thank you for your effort.

    Regards from Mexico City.

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  16. Is there a way to boot from the USB via UEFI? While Chromium OS boots ok when the BIOS is in legacy mode every time I switch to legacy mode it messes up my bootloader (I dual boot Xubuntu and Windows 8.1, and I use GRUB2 as the main bootloader), having to reconfigure the whole thing again. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for the great work on the builds.

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  17. Hi,
    Sorry for disturbing you but I tried your latest images and could go to the welcome screen, though my left click isn’t recognized unless for “enable debugging” which then puts everything in chinese and the shutdown option which mean that I can’t select anything.
    Do you have any idea? =)

    Thanks!

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    1. Same problem here with the AMD64 build on 20th. A couple of tries show that the system is indeed picking up my click on the drop-down menus on the welcome screen, but the drop-down lists are invisible. I can click on the area and randomly pick a language, which gets reflected on the “enable debugging” screen as mentioned above. Looks like the UI is not being properly redrawn. Using an integrated Radeon HD 7560D display card. Will try the latest image soon.

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  18. Is any more info available about why it won’t boot fully on some hardware? What is causing this?

    Using: Cx86OS-20141213010101.img.7z
    Hardware: IBM ThinkPad Z60M
    (32-bit Pentium M 1.7ghz, 1.5 gig RAM, 60 gig SATA)

    Tried booting from USB stick and from hard drive, using the Win32 Image Writer to write the image. In both cases, booting fails. “Repairing your computer”, over and over.

    Ctrl-Alt-F2 then Ctrl-Alt-F1 brings up the boot console, which says:
    Decompressing linux, parsing ELF, performing relocations, done
    Booting the kernel (ChromiumOS logo appears here)
    atkbd: serio1: probe failed
    EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn’t mount as ext3 due to feature incompatabilities
    EXT4-fs (sda1): VFS: can’t find ext4 filesystem

    Then a timer counts down about 3 minutes and it reboots and does all this again.

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      1. Hi,
        I have the same problem in VirtualBox with latest Camd64OS builds and these configurations:
        – VM Type: Gentoo 64Bit, Other Linux 64bit, Ubuntu 64bit
        – RAM: 1GB for VM (My PC has a 4GB DDR3 RAM)
        – CPU : Pentium Dual-Core E5700 @ 3.0 GHz

        I tested with VMWare Player, it doesn’t boot and only error was:
        atkbd: serio1: probe failed

        I have downloaded 4 latest builds of both 64bit and 32bit Chromium OS.

        I have a build of 2013 (it’s built by you!) and it still works!

        Please Help me! 🙁

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      2. Hi Arnold —
        I hope this message finds you well. I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge you for the contribution you are in making this platform available to us simple folk simply looking to keep an old machine running on a neat new platform. Had I not found your work, I’d still be trying to figure out how to compile this thing.

        I’d like to make a case for working on Pentium-M support and that case is this: There are more business-class laptops out there of this caliber than you can possibly imagine still coming in to recycling companies all over the country. Quite literally thousands each day. Their parts are abundant and so are the materials that go into them. The dell D600, D610, D500, D505, D510, D800, D810. . .and IBM’s T41, T42, T43, R50, R51, R52. . .just to name a few of the most common. With the commercial good will behind the chromeos name, there is real viability in the refurbishing and reuse of these machines that are otherwise doorstops at best. It seems like such a shame to me that these machines can’t continue to be used and what you’re working on could allow for that. I won’t even go into the environmental impact of all of these machines becoming obsolete. The volume of machines built and sold in that area was at the literal PEAK of desktop and laptop sales, and they’re just gonna keep coming.

        SO, that said, here’s the technical DL and what I’ve found in the way of solutions (or at least, moving toward one). If you have the time, your expertise in this domain would be profoundly appreciated.

        NOW, onto the technical side: The first is PAE. The second is SSE2 support. Last things first, I’ve found a patch here: https://github.com/graysky2/chromium-no-sse2-patch to produce a version sans SSE2.
        This one first because the solution is more closely related to this branch than what I’ve found for PAE.

        As far as PAE, MOST of the Pentium Ms HAVE PAE but lack the flag for it so the kernel won’t recognize it. There appear to be numerous solutions to this out there, but not a whole lot of people with those solutions have a distro, much less one so relevant as what you’re producing. SO, any chance you might consider working on a ‘special’ build to include these as well?

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          1. Holy crap I’m being a troll. Further reading indicates what we already know: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. The Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs both support SSE2. Definitely read a post stating that the real problem was that class of CPU’s non-existent support for SSE2, which was apparently actually totally made up. SO, can we persuade Chromium that these CPUs support what they actually support?

  19. As a followup here, I wonder if the problem with the ext4-fs booting is actually being caused by the Windows image writer. It is a very weird program that cannot write to a raw unformatted Windows disk, but requires an actual mounted drive letter which it then proceeds to wipe out and repartition.

    Maybe Windows or my antivirus is getting its nose in there and messing up the write at some point?

    I will try writing the image from linux, though I don’t have any machines with a full linux install. Perhaps I can do dd to write the image using the GParted live CD?

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    1. Well after fooling around for an hour, managed to write the image with the GParted live CD and dd, and an additional hard drive with a FAT32 partition containing the image so I could mount it and dd it to the USB external drive..

      Result: no change, all the same errors at startup, can’t mount ext3, can’t find ext4. So I guess Windows is not the problem here. Something to do with the image.

      Perhaps it doesn’t have the right disk controller support for my IBM Z60M laptop? Kernel boot uses BIOS disk access, but tries to switch to another driver and fails after kernel starts?

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  20. Like Vandrak,
    I have been getting errors when booting from USB.
    I downloaded the latest build (December 20th, 2014) but the issue also occurs with the Dec. 14th build.
    When I plug in the USB and boot, the ChromiumOS logo comes up , then a spiral, and then it says “The system is repairing itself,” and reboots. When I use CTRL+ALT+F2, I get an error message about ext4.
    I made a youtube video of the issue at http://youtu.be/iVJs_tYStMQ
    Some sources suggest that Ext4 is not supported in ChromeOS — see http://v.gd/bHqOSE and/or http://v.gd/9FyMJl
    What can I do to fix this?
    Thanks,
    David

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  21. Hi!
    Do you know how I can use my Google Drive account on your build? I’m running the latest build.

    Thx alot for your great job!

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  22. Is there a driver in Chromium OS for my Ralink RT5390R 802.11bgn Wifi card? Because I’m getting sick of using ethernet as it makes my Chromebook “less portable”

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  23. How do I make Chromium OS “take” all my space? Because in chromium OS I only have 400MBs left when I have a 16 GB Drive. According to 4 partition editors, there is 12.07 unallocated space. How do I make Chromium OS take up all of the space? so I have 12.47 GB of free space. can you tell me how to fix it?

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  24. Since last week, I found that simply updating with the command “update_engine_client — update” can no longer update the system, only “update_engine_client –update –omaha_url=http://chromebld.arnoldthebat.co.uk:8080/update” can. That’s very strange. Anyone share my experience?

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  25. Hi,

    Can you please do a build without SSE3 support ?
    Most older machines would run Chromium OS fine but they lack SSE3 (I have one right here, a Toshiba Satellite M70-168, which would be perfect).

    The x86-generic board mandates SSE3 but you can remove that easily. Honestly I don’t believe SSE3 support changes much in term of performance…

    At least can you do a special build ? Thanks !

    Thank you !

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      1. This would really be appreciated. I believe I have the same issue on my Lenovo Thinkpad R60. It definitely lacks the SSE3 support.

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  26. Hi Arnold, how are you?
    This text was translated by google translator and for that I apologize in advance for possible English errors.
    I’m a week ago trying to install chromium OS but without success, it works perfectly on the pendrive but when you install it on the HDD gives an error “could not access / dev / sdb”, already did what you recommended here on the site and on other sites too, have used various images and also nothing happens. My question is as follows: is it just me or google does this on purpose so people can not install the system on their pcs and have to buy because chromebooks? everything is done to make things difficult, since installation, codecs, google drive, what do you think?

    Thank you in attention and await contact

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      1. Thank you for answering me and I will rather try what you told me. Congratulations for your work and for providing the images always updated to the people .Only one last question: the chromium OS have any final version or is part of the project only test under development?

        a hug

        translated by google translator

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  28. Could anyone tell me how to activate flash player? He says that is installed but the application Google Music asked me to upgrade flash player. It appears to me and a couple of web sites! So please if you can somehow help me. Thanks in advance and greetings.

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    1. Hi Arnold,

      Any response to this? I have the same issued..I can watch <youtube, but not access my google play content… Is this because it detects that the browser is chromium, so will not work?
      Thanks,
      Rick

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  29. After the first reboot, wifi stopped working on my Thinkpad L440 (with Intel 7260 wifi). Powerwash and rewriting the usb stick didn’t change anything.. really strange.

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    1. What I reported applied to the December 29th build.
      Just now I downloaded the 30th build and again:
      Wifi works on initial boot and after the first reboot not anymore.

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      1. I downloaded the October 5th build and wifi is working normally there.

        The main difference in their dmesg outputs is that in the new build all entries by the “cfg80211″ configuration API are missing, therefore seemingly leading to an” wlan0: deauthenticating from MAC_ADDRESS by local choice (reason=3)” error.

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  30. The wifi stopped working on my HP Pavillion Sleekbook 14-b010us shortly after Chromium version 41.0.2255.0, Platform 6605.0.2014_12_210637, am64-generic. The unit claims to use Atheros AR5B125 for wifi on the chassis. The linux driver for that device is listed as MadWifi ath9k, but I could off base.

    Nightly updates had been working fine on this machine for quite a while.

    Thank you for all your efforts! They are greatly appreciated.

    Leland

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    2. Sounds like more drivers removed from the default builds! Im looking to get the MadWifi drivers back into the special builds since they are ebuilds so should be simple to drop in.

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  31. Anyone managed to multiboot it using GRUB2. I personally tried for a week and got it to load but it took me to the system repair screen or something.

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  32. I kown ralink 5390r wifi card problem can be solved by typing
    echo “options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4″| sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/asus_nb_wmi.conf in terminal，so can you modify and repack img file？

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  34. Just to confirm the problem as others reported, Intel 6230 WiFi is not working after 2014/12/17 build. OS boots normally but WiFi is always reported as turned off.

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  35. Wifi stops working here as well (Acer Aspire One 532h) Atheros wifi. I read in earlier response that you would be doing special build with these common wifi drivers included. Are/will these builds updatable through the dev server ??

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    1. After further investigation, seems like driver is loading correctly, but an hardware/software switch is turning it off. Trying to fix it ATM. So it’s not a removed driver problem (would have been surprising as probably many chrome OS devices are using atheros…)

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  37. I’ve been trying to get any of the .vdi images to work in VirtualBox on OSX to work but every one gives the same error below that a few others have mentioned. I am able to get to a command prompt when it gets stuck here but not sure what else to do. any ideas?:
    atkbd serio1: probe failed
    EXT4-fs (sdb3): couldn’t mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities

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    1. Virtualbox builds are a bit broken at the moment graphically (they work from a ctrl-alt-f2 to the console however for testing). Im looking to fix that in the special builds since I should be able to build in the VirtualBox graphics drivers hopefully quite soon.

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  38. Neither amd64 nor x86 boots on my machine (hp625 with amd P320 and ati card). Some MAC ADDR is shown for half a minute, then it gives me a “no boot filename received” error and exits. (“non system disk” error follows)

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  39. Hi,

    I’m trying to use your 64bit vdi file with Virtual Box.
    On loading the VM I am getting the following:

    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
    [ 0.216650] atkbd serio1: probe failed
    [ 0.3024261 EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn’t mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
    [ 0.711996] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr

    Any chance you could give some pointers on this. I am using a Dell Inspiron 15 3521 with 4gb of ram.

    Thanks

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    1. Virtualbox builds are a bit broken at the moment graphically (they work from a ctrl-alt-f2 to the console however for testing). Im looking to fix that in the special builds since I should be able to build in the VirtualBox graphics drivers hopefully quite soon.

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      1. Okay, thanks I will try again later.

        Any chance in the meantime you could point to an older version that would work? At the moment I only have the last hexxeh build which was April 2013.

        Thanks anyway, appreciate what you are doing.

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    2. Hi, yes I’m looking for it too. Have to test something but don’t own a chromebook.. there was supposed to be a working vdi on hexxeh.net but i think that project has been abandoned now.. maybe some luck on torrent sites finding that old vdi

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    1. Update:
      The Chromium team has found the problem and a fix will be available in a future release.

      For now a workaround is to use the following command in root shell after every boot:
      # stop apmanager

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      2. I can confirm that issuing

        #stop apmanager

        fixed the wireless dropping on my 242x/542x Atheros chipset. Now running the latest daily build on a Fujitsu P7230 netbook.

        Thanks Hadi!!

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      3. Wait how do i run the command? Sorry bit of a newbie
        Do i run it in the crosh or the developer console and how?
        # ap manager doesnt seem to have any effect on anything

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  42. i cant install Arnold chrome on harddisk , commands dont Work? please write exat what to do when im logged in at chrome:)

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  43. Hello guys. I own an Acer Aspire 5733-6838 and have tried booting the daily January 12th Chrome OS x64 build. It boots up fine but the wifi is showing off. I would like to install the build but cannot get wifi to work. My wifi car is the Qualcom Atheros AR5B125. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it!

    Thanks!

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  44. Hi,

    I’ve been meaning to try Chromium for a long time so thanks for this service!

    I’ve tried this build: Cx86OS-20150110010101.img.7z
    on my Asus EEE 1011PX Netbook.

    It booted but unfortunately I get as far as choosing a network and it either says ‘no network’ or ‘no network’ and ‘enable wifi’ but the ‘enable wifi’ is greyed out.

    The network adaptos are:

    Atheros AR9285 (Wireless)
    Atheros AR8152\8158 (Wired)

    Should I be using a different build?

    Thanks

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  45. Hi everybody!
    When i start system on VirtuaLBox, loading is stopping with message ‘Booting local image A’. Does anybody know what’s happend wrong?

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    1. I was faced with the same problem, loading is stopping with message ‘Booting local image A’, but I boot from a flash drive

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    2. Same problem here with VirtualBox (using Linux Mint 17 as host)… booting “local image A” or “B” or anything else doesn’t work.

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  46. Hi, thanks for your work!

    Still no WiFi on Acer aspire as to the last build. Is there a workaround? Stop apmanager does turn the wifi card on, but cannot connect to any network.

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  47. I just updated to the latest daily (42.something something) [Today is January 19th] and my audio stopped working.

    It was working on 41 but no any more…

    I’m going to do more testing on my end – I just installed some stuff to fix my Flash, etc. So I’m going to see if it’s related, but I thought I would let you know.

    FYI – my current script to get flash working can be found at http://www.brash.ca/flash.sh
    To install it, just login and sudo su then run “curl -L http://www.brash.ca/flash.sh” without the quotes (obviously).

    I take absolutely no responsibility for anything that happens from you running that script but I spent a long time fixing it and I think it’s working.

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    1. Hi MrPlow,
      Your last flash.sh script is ok, but I still have problems with mp4.
      MP4 AVC files doesn’t open at all.
      MP4 ASP (divx, xivd, ms mp4asp) do open but I get black video with correct audio.
      Thanks.

      My build:
      Chromium: 42.0.2282.2 (Versão do desenvolvedor) (64-bit)
      Revisão: 30a85161c47a99be00ecd125d5603586a3ed15b0
      Plataforma: 6718.0.2015_01_23_1510 (Developer Build – ounao) developer-build amd64-generic
      Blink: 537.36 (@877c278d6e5580aeec7e297fe325c31dba0ff73b)
      JavaScript: V8 4.2.16
      Flash: 16.0.0.257

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      2. Hi,
        I solved that problem disabling the video acceleration with:
        –disable-accelerated-video-decode in /etc/chrome_dev.con or in chrome://flags.
        Thanks.

        Reply

  48. Im trying to install chromium in my netbook, but i have problems with that.

    When i write the command: “install” in chrosh window,later, putting the password (FACEPUNCH), but the system said: incorrect password.

    Then, i enter in the shell with CRTL+ALT+F2 and i put the login name: Chronos and password: FACEPUNCH but the system said me again: incorrect password.

    Im using this iso file: Cx86OS-20141218010101 .

    Greetings to all.

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        1. The username is ‘chronos’ with a lowercase C at the beginning. The password is ‘password’.
          No quotes on both of those.

          Then you type ‘sudo su’ and it will ask for a password. The password, again, is ‘password’.

          Then, if you want to install it, you type ‘chrome-install –dst /dev/sda’

          That installs it to your main harddrive, assuming your main harddrive is the device “sda”.

          Everything is in LOWERCASE letters. 🙂

          Hope that helped!

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          1. Thanks for your response.

            Well, i try to install chrome os again with your instructions and the install fail again.

            First, i enter in the shell with CTRL+ALT+F2, then i enter the user “chronos”, later i put the password “password”.

            Second, i type “sudo su” and then i put the password “password”.

            To end, i type the the command “chrome-install –dst /dev/sda”, but the screen shows “command not found”. Next, i try with: “chromeos-install –dst /dev/sda” , but the screen shows a warning “flags:WARN getopt: invalid option — “d”
            “flags: FATAL unable to parse provided options with getopt”.

            What can i do now?

            Greetings and thanks to your response.

  49. Confirmed – latest build (version 42.0….) breaks audio on the Toshiba M10. Tried it on three different devices all upgrading from three different, working versions.

    Going to try and “downgrade” to a version 41… from the daily builds.

    Side-question: The work you’re doing is amazing… I feel guilty asking for something from you but is it possible to list the version with the daily/weekly builds? It has the date and the file size. Is it difficult to add the version? Mostly because I’m too lazy to try and figure it out myself. 🙂

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    1. Grrr… it’s not version 42 that broke audio. Some version 41 images are doing it, too.

      I tried the Jan. 1st image, now I’m trying the Nov. 9th. Will report back.

      Reply

      1. Sorry for so many posts…

        Just confirmed that the NOV. 9th IMAGE WORKS (in terms of audio).

        So… what’s different between Nov. 9th and Jan. 1st?

        I might try each image up to Jan. 1st but that’ll take some time.

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        1. Last but not least – I pin-pointed that it is between the December 14th and December 21st images.

          Version 41.0.2249.0 has working audio.
          Version 41.0.2255.0 does NOT have working audio.

          Again, the laptop is a Toshiba M10, I think the audio processor is the Realtek HD (with EC) but I can’t seem to find the exact model number.

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          1. Awesome – so it seems somewhere between Dec. 14th and Dec. 21st (the dailies for that timeframe are gone – archived?)

  50. Oh well. At least we know the timeline for the change. I’m wondering if I’m the only one with audio issues after the Dec. 14th image. I only have that one device that boots the OS image so I can’t test further.

    I know you’re very busy but do you have any thoughts on what might have changed to break the audio? It’s a weird issue – the speaker icon is there and I can mute or unmute but I can’t raise the volume above zero and no sound comes out of anything. Dec. 14th image works perfectly, after that…

    If I knew enough about the source tree I would check but I’m not that savvy with that sort of stuff.

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