C710 IVB recovery

Hi,

I bought an Acer C710-2856 Q1VZC (Parrot Cobia A-E 6702) (it is IVB) that was bought second hand. The first time it booted, I saw it had a google account. I did the reset/powerwash and it boots fine. The small ssd disk is connected to the sata drive via an adapter that came with the C710.

At this point, I made a raw disk image with gnome-disk-utility of the original 16GB EMMC card in a different computer.

Now I have copied this image to a 500gb mechanical sata disk and this disk is in the C710. It boots up, I was able to add a google account, and at this point the device just sits there with the spinning “please wait” message forever. I cannot get into the Gear settings but I can turn off bluetooth and external usb and hdmi ports are working.

I want to install linux mint and haiku os on it.

Should I put in the original emmc and boot it? Boot up with another image in the recovery mode?

  • reinstall original SSD (not eMMC)
  • flash firmware
  • swap SDD/HHD
  • install OS of choice

Thanks.

I was able to get it to finish the login by restarting it.

I will follow your instructions.