Failed to install on Samsung Chromebook Plus: mkfs issue

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Failed to install on Samsung Chromebook Plus: mkfs issue

Postby darkgeek » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:49 pm

Hi, all:

I just got my Chromebook Plus and tried to install ArchLinux Arm to a USB stick. I followed the guide here https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/rockchip/samsung-chromebook-plus, but it failed with step 8 and 9, say, it complained an error at step 8 and hanged on "Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information" at step 9:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
localhost / # partx -a /dev/sda
partx: /dev/sda: error adding partitions 1-2

localhost / # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
mke2fs 1.43.6 (29-Aug-2017)
Creating filesystem with 30923771 4k blocks and 7733248 inodes
Filesystem UUID: cb010ed9-0178-40c8-b755-2b94db35e7b8
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (131072 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:
')

And the guide says:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')8. Tell the system to refresh what it knows about the disk partitions:
partx -a /dev/sda

9. Format the root partition:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2


So what should I do to deal with this? Thanks in advance.
darkgeek
 
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Re: Failed to install on Samsung Chromebook Plus: mkfs issue

Postby darkgeek » Fri Dec 22, 2017 6:22 pm

Well, I have made it working now :lol: . The error on step 8 is not a problem, just ignore it. And if your chromebook hangs at step 9, please make sure you have done this already and reboot(I mean you should type the 'reboot' command and type enter, to make it take into effect):

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_signed_only=0
')

Then everything goes well. :D
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