<div dir="ltr">ah ha! crouton has been updated in the last 48 hours!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ted W. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted-lists@xy0.org" target="_blank">ted-lists@xy0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">No Crouton? <a href="https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton" target="_blank">https://github.com/dnschneid/<u></u>crouton</a><br>
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Some discussion floating around the github "issues" say it works fine assuming you got the CB5 model (which it sounds like it is from your description).<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 11/07/2014 12:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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Got one of these beasties. It has the NVidia Tegra K1 cpu with 192 cuda<br>
cores and quad 64-bit arm cpu, amazing power efficiency and a 1080p 13"<br>
screen that's rather decent for less than $400.<br>
<br>
Now for the challenge, get a non-chromeOS Linux distro to run on this thing.<br>
<br>
Not that the shipping chromeos is bad. It's not. OK. It's actually pretty<br>
nice for what it does.<br>
<br>
BUT...<br>
<br>
It has no VPN support for the SSL thing used at work. It does support IPSEC<br>
and OpenVPN but not the F5 Big IP thing.<br>
<br>
The chrome browser dropped support for mozilla plugin api so the spice<br>
client browser plugin is now DOA.<br>
<br>
Yeah. The two things I was specifically planning to use - vpn from anywhere<br>
to get to work-based VM over a spice connection for a near live-feel full<br>
desktop environment.<br>
<br>
bummer<br>
<br>
The system has a TPM that will block running a non-google signed kernel<br>
unless it's in developer mode. Easy enough to get into (and a nice security<br>
feature is going into developer mode from trusted mode wipes all user data<br>
out - no password leakage - and the user space is all encrypted anyway).<br>
Entering dev mode effectively turns off the TPM.<br>
<br>
The recover image installs onto a USB thumb drive and uses some very<br>
strange partitioning:<br>
GPT with a EUFI support partition plus another 11 partitions!<br>
parted reports errors in the formatting of the thing but the unit is happy<br>
with it.<br>
The process uses a partition called KERN-A and ROOT-A, KERN-B and ROOT-B<br>
for supporting a current version of kernel and filesystem plus a backup or<br>
newly upgraded version.<br>
<br>
The system supports 3 pairings of this so there's room for a different<br>
filesystem. I've seen some notes on using those extra partitions (on the<br>
SSD, not on the thumb drive recovery device) to allow dual booting in other<br>
hardware (older chromebooks). Ubuntu 14.10 and Fedora 21 have support for<br>
the Tegra K1 on the Jetson board (kernel 3.10+). That's a development board<br>
that's pretty much the same thing as the Acer mainboard except the Acer has<br>
no serial port. :-( and uses soldered-on SSD and RAM.<br>
<br>
I need to be able to extract the weird setting from the recovery image<br>
partitioning so I can recreate them with new data bits. And this is where I<br>
get to learn more stuff.<br>
<br>
Note: I intend to keep the google kernel (maybe) as it has good hardware<br>
support for the system but use my own filesystem tree so I can add firefox<br>
and toys for other needs. I have a 32 GB SSD (and 4GB DDR3 RAM :-) so space<br>
is not to shabby.<br>
<br>
Ideas are welcome for reading partition data. I'll post what I see from<br>
this later.<br>
<br>
<br>
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