How to create a Chromebook bootable image of Raspberry Pi OS?

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How to create a Chromebook bootable image of Raspberry Pi OS? #225

Closed archisman-panigrahi closed 3 months ago

archisman-panigrahi commented 3 months ago

The Raspberry Pi OS is extremely lightweight, but it is tweaked to have many useful features.

I tried flashing Raspberry Pi OS using the RPi Imager app to a USB drive, but it does not boot when I press ctrl + U in my Chromebook. However, the debian image (from this repo) or postmarketOS just boots.

Perhaps the RPi OS image needs to be configured in a way so that the Chromebook can boot it.

Can someone give me some pointers on how I should start?

I am using a Lenovo 300e (HANA).

thenameisluk commented 3 months ago

chromebooks just work different you can't just boot random images on a chromebook funny :3 Raspbian is made for RPI not chromebooks there aren't any tweaks you can benefit from (afaik) not sure what are you trying to achieve

have raspbian repos Just add it

# add the raspberry pi os gpg key
wget -O - http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/raspberrypi.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
# add the raspberry pi os apt repository
echo deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ $(lsb_release -cs) main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspios.list
# update repositories
sudo apt update

have ur desktop look like on raspberry pi Add repo and run
```
# install pixel
sudo apt install raspberrypi-ui-mods -y
```
more details

archisman-panigrahi commented 3 months ago

Thank you.

BTW, I just found that there is a patch for the GPU drivers for Chromebook HANA https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-GX6250-MT8173. Hopefully it will make the web browsing experience in Debian as smooth as in Chrome OS.

hexdump0815 commented 3 months ago

just as a note: this gpu patch is still in very early stages and it will still take quite a while until it will be useable for anything useful.

archisman-panigrahi commented 5 days ago

there aren't any tweaks you can benefit from (afaik)

The desktop environment is very lightweight, yet it looks quite good and is more convenient to use compared to vanilla XFCE - of course XFCE can be customized. That is all.

Thank you for telling me how to configure it.