Hi there I'm unable to boot into live image I have dev mode on and USB booting and it simply wont boot.

[jonathan011Hh]

Hi there I'm unable to boot into live image I have dev mode on and USB booting and it simply wont boot. I know I've already posted to the issues page but I'm wondering if someone can help me Ive spent forever trying to get this working I have a "Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Chromebook" with MediaTek Kompanio 500, MT8183" all help is appreciated (yes my device is supported)

[thenameisluk]

question does your developer mode menu look like this or like this ?

[thenameisluk]

if the first one try going to developer options and selecting boot from usb/external device if the second one, (assuming usb boot is enabled and usb device/port works) u probably still have flashed the image incorrectly

[jonathan011Hh]

oh ok

[jonathan011Hh]

I'll try flashing the image

[jonathan011Hh]

no my dev screen looks like the bottom one

[jonathan011Hh]

I flashed it, it said flash succesfull on belena etcher? it still just beeps

[jonathan011Hh]

here screenshot is this the right file to download as iso or os (top one)

[thenameisluk]

yes the file is correct, the bulleye is pretty old one thoe i would recommend you going with bookworm : https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/releases/tag/230917-01 have you tried using raspberry pi imager? seams to be producing bootable usb for me (tested it with my kukui device), is cross platform and you can also pass compressed version (.img.gz) to it

[jonathan011Hh]

I have right file and did everything right it just wont boot( is it because I have a blue 3.0 USB)

[jonathan011Hh]

yes I will try pi imager

[jonathan011Hh]

it still turns to black screen then hangs there for like 10 seconds then beeps loudly

[hexdump0815]

do you press ctrl-u when you see the dev screen to force it to boot from usb? otherwise it will wait a while, then beep and then boot chromeos ... if that is not the problem then i'm not sure what the problem is - it should at least boot ... maybe you can check your flashed usb device on some other system and check that it has four partitions ("fdisk -l" or "cat /proc/partitions" on linux as root for instance) - if not then something went wrong with the flashing i guess

[jonathan011Hh]

idk I tried all of that

[jonathan011Hh]

lmk check tho

[jonathan011Hh]

ya it has more than 4

[jonathan011Hh]

here's my USB=
USB 3.0 64GB

[thenameisluk]

it might be one of these fake capacity usb's? honestly no other idea what might be going wrong

[jonathan011Hh]

? oh i have a 64GB USB 3.0, usb might be bad or there isnt an image to boot from or it dosnt like it for whatever reason.

[thenameisluk]

it's like when usb says it has x capacity but it actually has y maybe try with different usb?

[jonathan011Hh]

ok will do, (I tried a SD card still didn't boot) also it didn't boot it like went black like it was trying to boot then quit.

[thenameisluk]

ok make sure you use kukui image

[jonathan011Hh]

aight ima test it

[jonathan011Hh]

it keeps beeping also, take a look Screen recording 2024-06-08 6.01.34 PM.webm idkw its saying this stuff, also I'm trying this alternatively also I did flash it earlier!

[thenameisluk]

but that's not how u flash an image

[thenameisluk]

if you want to flash the image from your chromebook open chromebook terminal download the image

wget https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/releases/download/230917-01/chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz

unpack the image

gunzip chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz

find your usb device

lsblk

output:

luk@chluk /mnt $ lsblk
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mtdblock0     31:0    0     8M  0 disk 
sda1      179:0    0 116,5G  0 disk <-- you are looking for entry with the size of your usb
├─sda1p1  179:1    0    32M  0 part <-- not this, this is a partition
├─sda1p2  179:2    0    32M  0 part 
├─sda1p3  179:3    0   512M  0 part /boot
├─sda1p4  179:4    0 108,5G  0 part /
└─sda1p5  179:5    0   7,5G  0 part [SWAP]

flash the image

sudo dd status=progress if=chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img of=/dev/sda1 <-- replace sda1 with you usb name from the step above

device should be ready to go if there is any problem with a command just add sudo before it

[jonathan011Hh]

gzip: chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz: No such file or directory

[thenameisluk]

u haven't downloaded the image using the command or the download failed

[jonathan011Hh]

I don't have wget

[thenameisluk]

how about

curl https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/releases/download/230917-01/chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz

?

[jonathan011Hh]

it worked ima extract image

[thenameisluk]

wait curl is more complicated

[thenameisluk]

it should actully be

curl -O -L https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/releases/download/230917-01/chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz

[jonathan011Hh]

ok it also says no space left stay on issue I'm having dinner ttyl I'll tell u if this works!

[jonathan011Hh]

curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination, passed 16366 returned 138

[thenameisluk]

try with sudo

[jonathan011Hh]

ok

[jonathan011Hh]

still no

[jonathan011Hh]

gzip: chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz: unexpected end of file

[thenameisluk]

curl -o chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz -L https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/releases/download/230917-01/chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz

?

[jonathan011Hh]

still no

[thenameisluk]

find / -name chromebook_kukui-aarch64-bookworm.img.gz 2>/dev/null

share the output

[jonathan011Hh]

I found it its running the gzip script rn

[jonathan011Hh]

hopefully it works its flashing it rn

[jonathan011Hh]

it worked!😁(its slow to boot tho lol) question am I able to use this for other operating systems? if so how?