11-09-2019, 08:17 PM
(11-08-2019, 10:33 PM)tophneal Wrote:(11-08-2019, 05:52 PM)Arglebargle Wrote: RE u-boot: The script to patch u-boot on the eMMC is simple enough that it should just work, I don't think it's doing anything that would fail on chromeOS.
If for some reason it does fail I hacked a copy so I could flash to a specified device instead of the detected root; I used this to patch loopback mounted copies of ayufan's images so they're ready to use again if I need them. Just edit DEVID to point at the device you want to flash updated u-boot onto: https://pastebin.com/raw/EeK074XB.
You don't want to be working in crosh, either switch to the debug shell (ctrl+alt+f2) or drop to a proper shell from crosh by running "shell" and then switch to root. I usually just "sudo -i bash" as cronos (default password is "cronos") and away you go.
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I tried the ChromeOS build out for a bit last night and it seemed to work well. Netflix video playback seemed significantly smoother compared to Linux, is there better support for hardware accelerated video here vs the Linux builds? My only real gripe with the experience was the touchpad, otherwise the PBP makes a pretty decent chromebook.
Thanks for the tip and the script! I've been amazed by how little information I've been finding about crosh. @Arglebargle would you recommend any resources for those of us that are new this OS?
Anyone else who's run this and installed the penguin VM, I'm curious, when you enter the shell, do you have apt?
Crosh is basically just the debug shell for the chromeos ecosystem, there isn't a lot you'll want to do with it on your own other than typing "shell" and using the crosh window to drop to bash. You can run some basic diagnostic commands but not much that's useful for tinkering.
I haven't played with the Linux VM support much yet, the chromebook I spend most of my time on doesn't have crostini support (thanks Skylake!) so I just use crouton and a chroot when I want to do linux things.