Can't Boot to GalliumOS Easily

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System Details

  • Device: BLUEBIRD
  • OS: chrx galliumos installation
  • Firmware Type: RW_LEGACY
  • Firmware Version: Google_Casta,11297,432.0 (05/03/2023)
  • Internal storage type: internal ssd, used chrx to get 48gb from internal storage, i dont have a fast storage media, figured i could do it with the internal storage.

Summary of the Issue

i installed GalliumOS using chrx, created the partition and then ran the script to install it to the created partition, mmcblk0p7, using chrx.

and after booting and pressing crtl + l im taken to the defalt grub menu, where can i only select the default images, a and b.

(btw pressing esc in the splash screen the only option i got in the boot options is internal emmc, entering that it takes me to the same grub menu)

pressing “c” in the grub menu i actually booted into GalliumOS using the following commands:

insmod ext2

​set root=(hd0,gpt7)

​linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.16.18-galliumos root=/dev/mmcblk0p7 rw

​initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.16.18-galliumos

​boot

is there any way to boot into galium without writing these commands manually? im pretty new to all that chromebox and linux stuff so take it easy with me, thanks!

Expected Behavior

maybe i could select gallium os somewhere without having to write all that commands manually.

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GalliumOS has been dead for many, many years now.

Install a modern Linux OS and you’ll be good to go.

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thank you so much, so just install any other linux in the existing partition created that has gallium or i should recover the whole chromebook with an usb stick before? to kinda reset everything, ive been messing with it for a while now

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the ideal way would be to reset via Recovery USB, use CRAP to partition, the install Linux into P7 and the bootloader into P12

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