On 12/06/2012 05:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 05:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:19:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012
>>>
>>> Do not follow any of these instructions unless:
>>>
>>> 1). You know what you are doing.
>>> 2). You understand that you may cause damage to your Chrombook. In
>>> particular, you may permanently damage the audio (speaker) hardware
>>> until we have UCM working properly in ALSA. This is at your risk.
>>>
>>> PLEASE do not remove the giant obnoxiously offensive warning from that
>>> wiki page that I intentionally added to scare people off in the interim.
>>
>> Heh :-)
>>
>> I followed Dan Berrange's instructions and successfully got Fedora 17
>> onto my Chromebook.
>>
>> However it crashes (pretty reliably actually) when I do a 'yum update'.
>> Somewhere in the middle.
>>
>> I haven't entirely ruled out general hardware crappiness. In
>> particular, the SD card might be bad (although it works OK on my main
>> laptop). Aside from that has anyone seen anything like this?
>
> I've seen one crash so far which happened when I left it running
> overnight. Haven't had chance to track down why. Generally though, I've
> not have the unreliably you mention. Upgrades work ok. If that's
> reproducible, can you provide some more info, debug output, even a
> YouTube video of the process for us to see what's happening?
I think first of all I'm going to replace the SD card with another
one. Never trust them even (in this case) when it's a brand name card
bought from a reputable retailer.
I've had good luck so far with a SanDisk Extreme SDHC 45MB/s card.
Jon.