Acer Chromebook 13 CB-311

[dfly]

Good evening fellow arm archers,

I'd like to put Arch on my Acer Chromebook therefore I followed two guides:

https://github.com/lgeek/gnu-linux-on-a ... omebook-13

and

http://wiki.baserock.org/guides/baseroc ... e-cb5-311/

I have everything installed except chromeos-devkeys (the Arch package won't install and the needed files seems to already be there)

I compiled everything without any hassle and only few minor warnings BUT the I can not get the system to work.
This is freaking me out right now because I spend way to much time which I don't have and still nothing.

Maybe an experienced user can help me out so I can get this to work finally.

I am using an Arch 64 bit system with Arch's cross compiling toolchain.

Using an Samsung Chromebook image has more success (my screen blacks out and the chromebook freezes)
The compiled version just beeps and does not boot a bit.

Please help me

Thanks

[WarheadsSE]

The compiled version of what?

[dfly]

The compiled version of the kernel which ought to run according to the guides.

The kernel is from the chromeos third party kernel repo from google. (Version 3.10)

[WarheadsSE]

You did do the signing, right?

[dfly]

I used this command to sign the kernel:

vbutil_kernel --pack /mnt/rootfs/boot/vmlinuz.signed \
--keyblock /usr/share/vboot/devkeys/kernel.keyblock \
--version 1 \
--signprivate /usr/share/vboot/devkeys/kernel_data_key.vbprivk \
--config /mnt/rootfs/boot/kernel.flags \
--vmlinuz /mnt/rootfs/boot/vmlinuz \
--arch arm

but I don't really know if the keys installed with vboot-kernel-utils do provide the correct keys.

The linux geek guide states to install the chromeos-deykeys, but the aur package seems to be broken and I could not find any alternative.

[WarheadsSE]

There is a copy on the original device, under dev mode.

[dfly]

Thanks.

I copied the devkeys from my chromebook, redid

mkimage -D "-I dts -O dtb -p 1024" -f its_script.its /mnt/rootfs/boot/vmlinuz

signed the kernel and wrote it to the boot partition.

BUT unfortunately instead of booting my chromebook just blacks the screen accesses the sd for a split second beeps and returns to the initial chrome screen

[feuera]

When I was struggling at a similar stage as you are. The missing piece also mentioned in your links was:

# Mark Kernel partition as good and set priority
sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 5 -T 1 /dev/mmcblk0
sudo reboot

-S 1 to store config
-T 1 for temporary change

regards, Andi

[dfly]

Thanks for the info.

This I have tried multiple times. With his kernel, with my kernel.

Result: His kernel boots. Mine does not.

Also I tried various toolchains.

Which one did you use?

[feuera]

First I downloaded the one from linaro arm-linux-gnueabihf and compiled the kernel under my intel archlinux.
I then compiled on my CB5 using chrubuntu with its gcc from ubuntu.
I am able to boot both.

my cmdline is as follows - I am booting from sdcard.
console=tty1 debug verbose root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw

I tried nvidia driver pack 21.3 (l4t). I was able to start X but that did keep crashing several times.
Switching back to 19.3 solved that issue and right now I am running cinnamon with native nvidia drivers.

Applying the driver pack with the enclosed scripts did mess up my /lib directory. In arch nowadays this is just a symlink to /usr/lib. Copying the contents of /lib to /usr/lib and recreating the symlink makes the system run again.

Trying another sdCard / USB Stick might as well solve your issue.

regards,
Andi