Hello Daniel,

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Bischof <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, msuchanek wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:16:51 +0200 (CEST) Daniel Bischof
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried
>>> openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-XFCE-chromebook.armv7l-2017.07.22-Build1.1 recently,
>>> but it just beeps and kicks me back to the boot screen immediately. No
>>> messages on screen, partition resizing, etc.
>>>
>>> Any hints? Some cgpt magic I could try from ChromeOS perhaps?
>>
>>
>> You can try installing upstream u-boot following the chainload steps
>> deteailed in several places on the interwebs - eg here
>> http://chrodyssey.blogspot.cz/2015/04/the-bootloader-chained.html
>>
>> The current u-boot supports display on Snow but the EFI GOP emulation
>> (which the Tumbleweed image would use if it booted) is broken.
>>
>> It probably does not boot because the loader is missing or not marked as
>> bootable or you did not enable USB boot on the chromebook.
>>
>> The developer mode on current versions of ChromeOS has more features than
>> it used to but is also more flaky - it seems services tend to stop working
>> randomly and currently I Cannot boot at all after the devmode installation
>> fell apart.
>
>
> thanks to both of you (Michal and Misha) for your answers, nice to hear that
> you didn't give up on Snow, even since it is no longer available for
> purchase.
>

I partly revived my chromebook snow and i was able to test current
Tumbleweed image
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-chromebook.armv7l-2017.08.13-Build1.6.raw.xz
I found that factory U-Boot for some reason don't like our
chainloading U-BOOT partition with message:

GptNextKernelEntry looking at new prio partition 1
GptNextKernelEntry s1 t5 p10
GptNextKernelEntry likes partition 1
Found kernel entry at 2048 size 409604
Not a valid verified boot key block.
Verifying key block signature failed.
Not a valid verified boot key block.
Verifying key block hash failed.
Marking kernel as invalid.
GptNextKernelEntry looking at new prio partition 1
GptNextKernelEntry s1 t5 p10
GptNextKernelEntry no more kernels

i will try to investigate further why this happen.

> I played around a little with the broken image, but failed to recompile
> u-boot as described in the above link - need to dig into this.
>
> I switched (temporarily, i hope) to archlinuxARM [1], which works fine (all
> HW incl. 2d acceleration), but it is uncomfortable for me, since i've never
> used archlinux before. Kali (Debian-based) works, too, but has no 2d
> acceleration. Both appear to use the ChromeOS-kernel.
>
> I don't use ChromeOS, but keep it up-to-date via guest mode - maybe a
> not-so-good idea afterwards...
>
> [1] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/samsung-chromebook
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> --D.
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