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I've got the Acer Chromebook. Rather than dual booting, it was relatively easy to install a Debian chroot environment in developer mode to obtain the few extra

by sea6ear 14y ago

I've got the Acer Chromebook. Rather than dual booting, it was relatively easy to install a Debian chroot environment in developer mode to obtain the few extra dev utilities I really need (rdesktop mainly) that I couldn't get to work from the Chrome store. Right now I have it set up so that display :0 is the normal Chrome OS x-server and :1 is my chrooted debian environment. This way I can switch between them with a simple Ctr-Alt-F3 or Ctr-Alt-F1. The guide I found online to do so had subtly wrong instructions, however it was enough to point in the right direction. I've been planning to write up a corrected set of instructions. Hopefully I can do so soon and post here if there is interest.

trsohmers 14y ago
I've been trying to get X displays working in a chroot environment on my Samsung ARM chromebook... I have Ubuntu working fine in a dual boot and in a chroot within ChromeOS, but can't set the display...any help would be appreciated.
- sea6ear 14y ago
  I'll take a look at my setup when I get home and post the commands I'm running.
- sea6ear 14y ago
  Here's the chroot script I run: #!/bin/sh cp /proc/mounts /usr/local/wheezy/etc/mtab mount -o bind /sys /usr/local/wheezy/sys mount -o bind /proc /usr/local/wheezy/proc mount -o bind /dev/ /usr/local/wheezy/dev mount -o bind /dev/pts /usr/local/wheezy/dev/pts mount -o bind /tmp /usr/local/wheezy/tmp mount -o bind /home/chronos/user/ /usr/local/wheezy/root/chronos cp /home/chronos/.Xauthority /usr/local/wheezy/root/ chroot /usr/local/wheezy/ And then in the chroot I have these lines in my .bashrc: export XAUTHORITY=/root/.Xauthority export DISPLAY=":1" But I'm not sure they're actually necessary. I think you might just be able to do: DISPLAY=":1" startx & from the command line to start X. It seems to require being started from the actual virtual console on Ctl-Alt-F2 rather than from the crosh shell or local ssh.

by sea6ear 14y ago

trsohmers 14y ago

I've been trying to get X displays working in a chroot environment on my Samsung ARM chromebook... I have Ubuntu working fine in a dual boot and in a chroot within ChromeOS, but can't set the display...any help would be appreciated.

sea6ear 14y ago
I'll take a look at my setup when I get home and post the commands I'm running.
sea6ear 14y ago
Here's the chroot script I run: #!/bin/sh cp /proc/mounts /usr/local/wheezy/etc/mtab mount -o bind /sys /usr/local/wheezy/sys mount -o bind /proc /usr/local/wheezy/proc mount -o bind /dev/ /usr/local/wheezy/dev mount -o bind /dev/pts /usr/local/wheezy/dev/pts mount -o bind /tmp /usr/local/wheezy/tmp mount -o bind /home/chronos/user/ /usr/local/wheezy/root/chronos cp /home/chronos/.Xauthority /usr/local/wheezy/root/ chroot /usr/local/wheezy/ And then in the chroot I have these lines in my .bashrc: export XAUTHORITY=/root/.Xauthority export DISPLAY=":1" But I'm not sure they're actually necessary. I think you might just be able to do: DISPLAY=":1" startx & from the command line to start X. It seems to require being started from the actual virtual console on Ctl-Alt-F2 rather than from the crosh shell or local ssh.