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Pop!_OS 22.04 fails to install on Acer CB512 Chromebook #3359

Closed gallowglass closed 3 months ago

gallowglass commented 3 months ago

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

22.04

Issue/Bug Description:

I tried to install Pop!_OS 22.04 onto a chromebook and it failed. Pop booted, but the installer crashed after selecting language and locale.

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

  1. Install coreboot firmware on chromebook.
  2. Boot Pop!_OS from USB.
  3. Select language and locale.

Expected behavior:

Installation would continue to completion.

Other Notes:

I have uploaded the logs from the failed installation attempts.

failed_install_logs.tar.gz

leviport commented 3 months ago

There aren't any installer logs in that archive. The log collector is not intended to collect installer logs.

gallowglass commented 3 months ago

Sorry about that. I mistook the lines like

Jun 15 01:21:18 pop-os io.elementary.installer.desktop[2691]: fatal runtime error: failed to initiate panic, error 5

as something that might help.

Is there something I can do to help get this working, or is it not worth the effort? (Installing Pop!_OS on chromebooks might not be something y'all are interested in pouring effort into and that would be totally understandable.) If people are interested in pursuing this, I can collect more information, just tell me what you need.

leviport commented 3 months ago

When the installer fails, it tells you where that installer.log file is stored.

gallowglass commented 3 months ago

Okay. I'll try again and see if I can find that file.

gallowglass commented 3 months ago

Alas, I got the installation to work. Which is good for me, but bad for figuring out what went wrong before.

The thing I did differently this time is that after the installer died as above, used fdisk to delete the 13 partitions ChromeOS had on the disk, then opened the installer again. So there is apparently something about having an obscene number of partitions that was throwing the installer for a loop.