Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

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Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:18 pm

Hi all,

I followed the guide to bring this online on a microSD card. I have gotten it to where it will boot to an "alarm" prompt which can be logged into with root as the u/n and password.

After logging in I ran the following commands:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'wifi-menu
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm')

If I try to type the following commands, it just freezes.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ping google.com [or any website]
pacman -Syu')

Using ifconfig it has a broadcast IP so I think the wifi might be working. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. I also tried to run pacman -Syu --debug and took a picture, but the picture is too large to attach here. The last thing that it says before freezing is that it "failed to change dmc freq"
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:52 am

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S xorg')

Even installing xorg, nothing happens. Thinking of switching to Debian ARM as it's difficult to get tech support here and nothing seems to work the way it's supposed to.
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby robg » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:11 pm

Given how small the intersection between the ARM and Arch Linux community is, they do a fairly good job supporting a vast set of hardware. That aside, I find it odd that
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm
')
worked, but `ping` and `pacman -S` failed. Please have a look at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... comparison

Have you tried setting up the connection using `iw` or `nmcli` (see the networkmanager package) instead?
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:08 pm

Hi Rob,

It failed with an error but that is possibly because I had already used wifi-menu. I will try it again on a fresh install. Thanks anyway for trying to help.

https://github.com/nikolas-n/GNU-Linux- ... Chromebook

The above link has some steps needed beyond those listed in the official guide in order to get it to work. Perhaps one of these is unnecessary and/or breaks the install if it's new?

There's a torrent there for one that's preconfigured. It's down, but it does beg the question of why they can't just make an ISO available that's already ready to go...I realize that the point of Arch is customization, but we're talking about just the basic installation at this point. I'd be happy to upload such a file for others to take advantage of if I'm able to get it running properly.
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:40 pm

It seems that the solution was to follow this guide:

https://github.com/nikolas-n/GNU-Linux- ... Chromebook

But skip the part about editing the ExecStart line.

It's now at least downloading things rather than just freezing.

I'll make an image of this install and upload it if anyone can host it in the long term.
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:53 pm

New issue in that it's a 64 GB microSD card (59.5 usable), but

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'df -h')

indicates that there is only like 1.7 GB of space. I tried

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tune2fs - m /dev/mmcblk1 ')

but this indicates simply that there is a bad reserved space ratio?
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:36 am

So df -h was showing that I had like 3-4 gb of space on my 64gb sd card. I solved this by going into gparted on my ubuntu machine and running partition -> check. There didn't seem to be an equivalent command in parted (just some other different type of check according to --help). So you're gonna need another Linux machine.

Stay tuned for the continuing saga
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby mathfareswell » Fri Feb 12, 2021 4:11 am

Attempting to swapon /swapfile returns an invalid argument. Search returned a few threads with the same issue with no replies
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Re: Running an ASUS C100P in 2021

Postby nshiell » Sun Mar 21, 2021 1:17 am

I think I have the same issue
I have an ASUS C101P Chromebook
I have followed some guides to build a working Arch with a custom Kernel

As root I issue the commands:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=4096 status=progress
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

When I run swapon I see:
swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
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