[GUIDE][PROJECT CROISSANT] Installing official Chrome OS on any device (PC/PC-like)

[gerciolisz]

Some news? https://github.com/imperador/chromefy/releases/tag/v1.1

 

[ECOTV]

I am just here to report that you do not need first recovery like pyro or eve on newer models. Just use caroline and it will work out of the box. Just tried it on a Toshiba Satellite.

 

[rakesh0385]

Tnx for solving that problem.Now i got this issue ..?
...does not have system partition (corrupted)
aborting

https://imgur.com/a/9lyjz1f

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You are missing the main argument to the script, the partition where Chromium is installed. It goes after chromify.sh, like this:
Chromify.sh /dev/sdb3 eve.bin caroline.bin

 

[Guyzer73]

HI,

Well I thought I'd give it one final try using the most recent ATB special build for 64bit PCs, Eve and Caroline builds.

Everything works , however I have a few niggles that I can't solve, namely:

1. On booting up the laptop goes through the the "press escape enter start menu" then the "GNU GRUB, version 2.02 menu" where it auto selects booting from "local image A". This takes approx 15-20secs. I can't find a way to short cut this and get the laptop to boot straight to Chrome OS... Any ideas

2. Once on the Google screen, it hangs there until I either tap random keys on the keyboard or swipe and press on the touch screen. It then after 30secs loads the login screen. Any ideas what I've done wrong?

3. Using the docked keyboard I can't use 'right mouse click' it has the same function as left click... Again no idea how to change this... OK I see this is a Chrome OS function insofar that "Right Click" doesn't exist like on a Windows Laptop per se. The wonder of Google, RTFM and all that

4. The physical power button doesn't turn off and lock the screen...Ok this looks like an issue with the "Eve" Chrome build for Pixelbook, I suspect this will go away if I use the image for the HP Chromebook x2. And again thanks Google

Any pointers would be great as I'd like to get this working perfectly.

I think I may have to install the recovery image for the HP Chromebook X2, or G1 , as they have very similar specs to my HP Spectre X2... What would be your thoughts on that?

Should I ultimately try the automated recovery image just launched under Chromefy 1.1?

Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks to all those who've worked on this to get it this far and keep on improving it for us users

Cheers

Guy

 

[AndroidNazi]

Open flags in incognito ?

I don't understand why that would work but thank you very much.

 

[dracinn]

Is anyone else having audio video issues with online streams on Arnaoldthebats special v69?

 

[JonnehXD]

What would be the installation steps for a chromebook? I'm looking to try this out on my C720P

 

[escape1975]

Pretty strange stuff on my DC3217IYE, I've always been installing from Guest Mode with Ctrl+Alt+T and
when using Camd64OS_R69-10895.B-Special.7z I've always booted fine but after installation it would
hang on the chromium screen until I hit random keys, but when I installed with Ctrl+Alt+F2 it works!

Afterwards I installed chromeos_10895.78.0_fizz_recovery_stable-channel_mp-v8.bin.zip and
chromeos_10895.78.0_caroline_recovery_stable-channel_mp.bin.zip using chromify script
and it seems the box is working perfectly, even android play store with no slowdowns!

 

[alesimula]

What would be the installation steps for a chromebook? I'm looking to try this out on my C720P

Same as any other PC, unless you've got a chromebook with kernel 4.4 (or superior), or unless you don't want a build with Linux apps, you will have to install chromiumOS first

 

[alesimula]

HI,

Well I thought I'd give it one final try using the most recent ATB special build for 64bit PCs, Eve and Caroline builds.

Everything works , however I have a few niggles that I can't solve, namely:

1. On booting up the laptop goes through the the "press escape enter start menu" then the "GNU GRUB, version 2.02 menu" where it auto selects booting from "local image A". This takes approx 15-20secs. I can't find a way to short cut this and get the laptop to boot straight to Chrome OS... Any ideas

2. Once on the Google screen, it hangs there until I either tap random keys on the keyboard or swipe and press on the touch screen. It then after 30secs loads the login screen. Any ideas what I've done wrong?

3. Using the docked keyboard I can't use 'right mouse click' it has the same function as left click... Again no idea how to change this... OK I see this is a Chrome OS function insofar that "Right Click" doesn't exist like on a Windows Laptop per se. The wonder of Google, RTFM and all that

4. The physical power button doesn't turn off and lock the screen...Ok this looks like an issue with the "Eve" Chrome build for Pixelbook, I suspect this will go away if I use the image for the HP Chromebook x2. And again thanks Google

Any pointers would be great as I'd like to get this working perfectly.

I think I may have to install the recovery image for the HP Chromebook X2, or G1 , as they have very similar specs to my HP Spectre X2... What would be your thoughts on that?

Should I ultimately try the automated recovery image just launched under Chromefy 1.1?

Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks to all those who've worked on this to get it this far and keep on improving it for us users

Cheers

Guy

1) You can edit the "grub.cfg" file inside the /efi/boot directory in the 12th partition (ex: /dev/sda12)

just edit the option "set timeout={number}" to zero;
You can also remove all the other entries but "local image A" (just to make sure It'll boot that one)

2) Some user said they did not get this after installing chromiumOS from ctrl+alt+F2 shell instead of ctrl+alt+T; i'm not sure about this one though.

3) this looks like a driver issue to me

4) don't know about this, let me know how it goes on HP chromebook x2 image

 

[Guyzer73]

1) You can edit the "grub.cfg" file inside the /efi/boot directory in the 12th partition (ex: /dev/sda12)

just edit the option "set timeout={number}" to zero;
You can also remove all the other entries but "local image A" (just to make sure It'll boot that one)

2) Some user said they did not get this after installing chromiumOS from ctrl+alt+F2 shell instead of ctrl+alt+T; i'm not sure about this one though.

3) this looks like a driver issue to me

4) don't know about this, let me know how it goes on HP chromebook x2 image

Cheers Alesimula :good:

1) I'll look into that over the 'net and see how to do that and give it a try and report back as Chrome OS is all new to me...

2) Ok that doesn't work as I installed using ctrl + alt + F2, I guess I'll have to live with it for the moment until we get more info on this gremlin...

3) Well I got double finger click to work for 'right click' as per this link: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-right-click-on-a-chromebook

4) Okay I installed the Chromebook X2 image and there's no difference with the power button. I did however get something interesting. Namely, whilst using the 'eve' image when I went to Settings>About Chrome OS>Check for Updates, it came back as saying 'System up to Date.' However, with the Soraka image for the Chromebook X2 it's currently trying to update.... to what I don't know, but, will report back.

Thanks again for the help.


Guy

 

[slobo2712]

After everything instlled it just constantly reboots on booting the kernel point.Does it mean that my amd cpu isnt supported?Tnx

Tried with eve and caroline images on:
PC athlon x4 630 and gtx 650
laptop amd e1 -2500 apu and radeon hd 8200

 

[pazzoeo]

After everything instlled it just constantly reboots on booting the kernel point.Does it mean that my amd cpu isnt supported?Tnx

Tried with eve and caroline images on:
PC athlon x4 630 and gtx 650
laptop amd e1 -2500 apu and radeon hd 8200

I have the exact same problem on a AMD E1-1200 with Radeon HD 7310...

 

[ECOTV]

You can now create a full Chrome OS install with only 1 USB. Also no need to resize partitions. Follow this steps:
Full Chrome OS Installer 1 USB

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After everything instlled it just constantly reboots on booting the kernel point.Does it mean that my amd cpu isnt supported?Tnx

Tried with eve and caroline images on:
PC athlon x4 630 and gtx 650
laptop amd e1 -2500 apu and radeon hd 8200

What version of Chromium are you using? Make sure it is not Vanilla because Vanilla has no drivers.

 

[slobo2712]

You can now create a full Chrome OS install with only 1 USB. Also no need to resize partitions. Follow this steps:
Full Chrome OS Installer 1 USB

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What version of Chromium are you using? Make sure it is not Vanilla because Vanilla has no drivers.

Latest special,It is something with my cpu because i have tried that same hdd wih installed chrome os on intel cpu and it work like butter.

 

[Guyzer73]

4) Okay I installed the Chromebook X2 image and there's no difference with the power button. I did however get something interesting. Namely, whilst using the 'eve' image when I went to Settings>About Chrome OS>Check for Updates, it came back as saying 'System up to Date.' However, with the Soraka image for the Chromebook X2 it's currently trying to update.... to what I don't know, but, will report back.

So I've tried the updating 3 times now and the result is that the system says it's installing the update and progresses through the to 100%. However, whereas under the genuine Chromebooks it then prompts a reboot, here it then just states "your Chromebook is up to date." There's no change in the firmware build no.

I tried rebooting anyway but this had no impact...

Anybody have any ideas how to get the update to install properly?

 

[lucaoldb]

I am a happy owner of a chromebook and a few days ago I was going to buy a second usb key to test your how-to on al old pc which was already running cloudready. In the meanwhile, since Cloudready has got a different partition scheme, I had moved to FydeOs, because the builds by Arnold the bat did not support the wifi of my pc... So, since I had some spare time in the weekend, I had a look at FydeOs and discovered that creating a secondary user with full sync to google services (including Google drive files being displayed inside the file manager) was quite easy. Now I can barely see any difference while comparing that device to my real chromebbok.

After this "cure" which also involved removing from chrome_dev.conf the FydeOs account, the internet data of the secondary user should not be redirected to any fishy server, since I easily removed both the chromium extension by FydeOs and the app which had allowed the installation of the modified playstore (that is the only thing I did not remove).

I made several steps but, to keep it short, I removed the policies in etc/chromium/managed or smth like that and edited chrome_dev.conf by removing the FydeOs account (2 lines to be commented) and adding a line referring to google account (maybe useless). Then, in incognito mode, I switched on a flag referring to support of secondary account and rebooted..... So I was prompted to insert my google account and the file manager did show google drive files (and all my apps and settings were restored).

To install the play store I had to edit chrome_dev.conf, adding the lines which I had previously commented, and reboot... Play store installed fine, but google drive support was gone... So, once again I commented the lines referring to FydeOs account and rebooted and both the play store and the google account were ok. Both working.

I finally removed the FydeOs extension and the app with the chinese name which had allowed me to install the play store.

Now I only use the secondary account, which is fully working and syncing to google servers (only).

I understand that your how-to points to something different and maybe more polished, but I thought it could be useful to underline that the changes made by FydeOs to chromium are just under the surface and, by mounting the system to read and write, they can be easily scraped away.

I will go on following your thread

 

[primod808]

I am a happy owner of a chromebook and a few days ago I was going to buy a second usb key to test your how-to on al old pc which was already running cloudready. In the meanwhile, since Cloudready has got a different partition scheme, I had moved to FydeOs, because the builds by Arnold the bat did not support the wifi of my pc... So, since I had some spare time in the weekend, I had a look at FydeOs and discovered that creating a secondary user with full sync to google services (including Google drive files being displayed inside the file manager) was quite easy. Now I can barely see any difference while comparing that device to my real chromebbok.

After this "cure" which also involved removing from chrome_dev.conf the FydeOs account, the internet data of the secondary user should not be redirected to any fishy server, since I easily removed both the chromium extension by FydeOs and the app which had allowed the installation of the modified playstore (that is the only thing I did not remove).

I made several steps but, to keep it short, I removed the policies in etc/chromium/managed or smth like that and edited chrome_dev.conf by removing the FydeOs account (2 lines to be commented) and adding a line referring to google account (maybe useless). Then, in incognito mode, I switched on a flag referring to support of secondary account and rebooted..... So I was prompted to insert my google account and the file manager did show google drive files (and all my apps and settings were restored).

To install the play store I had to edit chrome_dev.conf, adding the lines which I had previously commented, and reboot... Play store installed fine, but google drive support was gone... So, once again I commented the lines referring to FydeOs account and rebooted and both the play store and the google account were ok. Both working.

I finally removed the FydeOs extension and the app with the chinese name which had allowed me to install the play store.

Now I only use the secondary account, which is fully working and syncing to google servers (only).

I understand that your how-to points to something different and maybe more polished, but I thought it could be useful to underline that the changes made by FydeOs to chromium are just under the surface and, by mounting the system to read and write, they can be easily scraped away.

I will go on following your thread

I tried using latest FYDE OS ISO booted it up enter wifi PW then it ask for a fyde email account. How did you get pass that part of the setup process? Cant proceed. Tried using arnoldthebat special ISO but get no wifi.

 

[JonnehXD]

Same as any other PC, unless you've got a chromebook with kernel 4.4 (or superior), or unless you don't want a build with Linux apps, you will have to install chromiumOS first

I've been trying to install ChromiumOS from ArnoldTheBat's builds, but I can't get them to boot at all on my C720P. It's an intel celeron processor, so I'm pretty sure I've got the right build, however once I select the flash drive in SeaBIOS, it just reboots.

Using the same flash drive on my desktop computer boots, so I've got no idea what I'm doing wrong on my chromebook. I've even booted up a linux live USB on the chromebook just to make sure it's configured correctly to let me boot from USB.

 

[lucaoldb]

I tried using latest FYDE OS ISO booted it up enter wifi PW then it ask for a fyde email account. How did you get pass that part of the setup process? Cant proceed. Tried using arnoldthebat special ISO but get no wifi.

You just have to insert a random user name and a random password, which will become your FydeOs account.