The whole device just freezes, the loading icon stopped turning, and moving the mouse does nothing.
I made a USB installer using ultramarine-xfce-40-live-x86_64.iso that you get from the default ultramarine download page. Using rufus with MBR Partitioning, FAT32 file system, and the default settings for everything else.
I installed it on a Lenovo Yoga 11e Chromebook (ULTIMA Board and Intel Braswell processor).
using the live image works, it freezes when i tried installing to the hard drive.
I’ve searched for the same issues on Fedora, and it seems to be a hardware connection issue related to the HDD/SSD, though im positive that my device uses eMMC, so idk if the same thing applies.
UPDATE : I tried using a netinst Fedora 40 ISO instead, and it shows an input/output error while downloading software.
What’s the full details? Did you flash the full rom, was chromeos working fine before you tried installing linux, do you know for sure that the internal drive is fully working?(some schools etc. purposefully destroy it).
If chromeos worked fine and the problems persist on other supported distros then I suspect the problem is with your pendrive.
Hey, I’m from the Ultramarine team. Firstly, we don’t test on Rufus, so we can’t guarantee things will work. Secondly, at what point in the install did it freeze?
I did flash the full UEFI, and chromeos was working fine prior to installing linux. turns out the internal drive is busted.
i chatted w weirdtreething and they said that I/O errors are pretty common in Braswell Chromebooks’s. I ended up just buying a newer, 64gb pendrive to install it on.
either way, thanks for your reply!
hello, the installer freezes at “Installing Software”, sometimes on “Installing Bootloader”. Apparently it was the internal drive’s fault I ended up using a 64 gb pendrive to install the OS to.
either way, thanks for replying!
I ended up using a 64 gb pendrive to install the OS to.