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Instructions for using chrx partition with Crouton? #99

Closed satmandu closed 4 years ago

satmandu commented 4 years ago

Chrx worked great to setup a separate boot partition on my pixel slate, but I want to be able to use apps from the Linux install from when I am booted into ChromeOS.

Could there be instructions or an option on how to direct crouton to just chroot to the partition that chrx creates?

I've just been mounting /dev/mmcblk0p7 to /mnt/empty when I have needed to get or put files, but that might not be the safest way.

Happy to help beta test too.

reynhout commented 4 years ago

@satmandu I think mounting is your only option. You can do something like this to focus on your user data:

sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p7 /mnt/chrx
ln -s /mnt/chrx/home/USERNAME $HOME/chrx

(I'm not sure what will work in the Crouton env, but that's the idea)

Crouton runs the ChromeOS kernel, so it cannot chroot into the OS partition installed by chrx.