[Chromebooks] nabil2000:
NeverWare CloudReady Chromebook clone

For convenience -

Made an RFC on neverware forum -

USB on Acer Chromebook C720P, Acer Iconia W700, Macbook Air mid-2011

Tested on three devices Acer Chromebook C720P, Acer Iconia W700, Macbook Air mid-2011.

Installed to internal SSD of Acer Chromebook C720P:

installed well

caveat - unable to use ctrl-alt-F2 or ctrl-alt-T unix shell, even from the install liveusb, which I find very odd,

took the ssd out (had another ssd with official peppy CB O/S)

put ssd into usb 3.0 enclosure - can boot using ctrl-U - so this solves on Acer C720P CB the boot from usb, still same issue with unix terminal shell...

For the other 2 devices Acer Iconia W700, Macbook Air mid-2011

I do not want to install to internal hard drive, the live usb does not have the terminal shell issues.

Any idea how to fix this terminal shell VT issue for Acer CB C720P?

posted this to [MENTION=8977063]cloudready[/MENTION] on [MENTION=1483463]twitter[/MENTION] thread too - https://twitter.com/meNabster/status...47823557337091

& XDA forum - https://xdaforums.com/sho...3&postcount=23

I found out that in order for Terminal shell to work, these need to be executed: Loading extra module: /usr/share/crosh/removable.d/50-crosh.sh Loading extra module: /usr/share/crosh/dev.d/50-crosh.sh On Chromebook Acer C720P with cloudready, they don't... suggest fix [MENTION=8977063]cloudready[/MENTION]

https://twitter.com/inabster/status/1011052495068717056

If I am successful with this, I'll post findings & links -

so far no luck with latest cloudready installation on a USB - it creates a live-USB ok, but there is no option to install to USB, only to internal ssd.

New link: https://neverware.zendesk.com/hc/en-...a-USB-install-

For those wishing an internal solution, i.e. taking over the Chromebook SSD there is NeverWare CloudReady Chromebook clone, which can also be used on ordinary laptops:

here are links -

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

https://guide.neverware.com/build-in...oad-cloudready …

https://neverware.zendesk.com/hc/en-...o-a-USB-drive-

https://twitter.com/meNabster/status...31786971631618

Maybe better than arnoldthebat?

I am in the process of testing this for lolz, but I do not think it offers Google Play Store.

Solution - using hardware -

Solved - hints

- issue command that allows you to boot self-signed Chromium OS with ctrl-U

- use another ssd in chromebook other than original (its an mSSD)

- install #cloudready to it by booting liveUSB

- get a mSSD to usb 3.0 adapter

- use the adapter to boot the usb.

to be able to use ctrl-U

as root

sudo enable_dev_usb_boot

https://twitter.com/meNabster/status...47823557337091

Simpler solution -

Solved - for Acer Iconia W700 - I used an external SSD with USB 3.0 adapter & installed via command line an older version of cloudready r44 (for newest versions v60+ cmd line install does not work) - might work with ctrl-L on [MENTION=355971]Acer[/MENTION] C720P

Acer Chromebook C720P booting from USB solved, the USB created installation using Acer Iconia W700 works on C720P with shell working,

The trick was install cloudready r44 first to USB SSD seen as a fixed disk drive (not for removable USB sticks) - then allow it to upgrade to r60+

https://twitter.com/inabster/status/1011493902677835776

News -

Updating [MENTION=2019776]neverware[/MENTION] [MENTION=8977063]cloudready[/MENTION] to v68 breaks ability to boot into Acer Chromebook C720P -

yeah I know they'd say they don't support CB's -

but it is crippleware on behalf of [MENTION=222739]google[/MENTION], so #cloudready is out for me, shame.

! [MENTION=4134963]arnoldthebat[/MENTION] latest Chromium OS special build r69 on the other hand can boot Acer CB C720P - you need use this trick: try & boot using Ctrl-L (which will fail), then boot using Ctrl-U...

For Android it misses arc config files, plenty of them, so will fail to load Android.

#arnoldthebat > For Android he put in the framework, but all necessary files are missing in

/etc/init

/opt/google/containers/android/

/usr/local/Android_Images/

No wonder Android not working...

I tried to put in the files manually, but it ends up saying no space left, sneaky #Google ??

https://twitter.com/meNabster/status/1046742269745922050