[coreboot] (depthcharge, vboot) Difficulties booting on Chromebook

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Hi,

On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 07:24 +0100, Linus Heckemann wrote:
> I've been following the instructions for getting Debian running on an
> Asus C201 Chromebook[1]. This has been going well, mostly, except that
> when I try to actually boot it (power on and press Ctrl-U) I am
> greeted
> by a loud and low-pitched beep and not much else. Any ideas as to what
> I
> may be missing?

That probably means that your boot medium was not setup correctly.
Perhaps the Debian instructions are either incorrect or incomplete.

> Relevant stuff:
> 
> # crossystem | grep dev_boot
> dev_boot_usb           = 1   # Enable developer mode boot from USB/SD
> (writable)
> dev_boot_legacy        = 0   # Enable developer mode boot Legacy OSes
> (writable)
> dev_boot_signed_only   = 0   # Enable developer mode boot only from
> official kernels (writable)
> 
> I've uploaded an image of the SD card resulting from the instructions
> (208M, 2G uncompressed) at [2].
> 
> Best regards
> Linus
> 
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201
> [2]: https://sphalerite.org/chromebook-debian-boot-sd.img.gz

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