Bug #9044
Chromebook C720-2800 requires tweaks to boot properly
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Description
Reported by user, hardware related:
The Chromebook is 64 bits, but when booting from vmlinuz2/initrd2.img is not booting (restarts some seconds after boot screen)
Changing vmlinuz2/initrd2.img to vmlinuz and initrd on the boot menu makes it boot.
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History
#1 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-12 13:06:09
- Subject changed from Chromebook C720-2800 tries to boot with wrong image to Chromebook C720-2800 requires tweaks to boot properly
- Assignee set to emmapeel
- Target version changed from Tails_1.3 to Tails_1.3.2
- QA Check set to Info Needed
Some Chromebooks need something like mem=1500m to boot properly, as discussed a few months ago (possibly without any conclusion reached, nor action taken to document it) on our support mailing-list. Is it the case for that one? I suspect the 32-bit kernel boots (as opposed to the 64-bit one) simply because it doesn’t recognize all the available RAM, or similar.
(Also, please don’t set “Target version” to a release that’s already out — thanks :)
#2 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-12 20:45:02
This should be added to the know issues, it’s currently not listed.
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-13 08:51:43
> This should be added to the know issues, it’s currently not listed.
Indeed, we’ve removed it with commit:b793bc1 since we were told that it wasn’t needed anymore. But since then we’ve had a few reports that some mem= parameter was needed.
#4 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-13 13:17:30
Maybe we could just revert this commit and see if we still get reports?
#5 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-17 11:55:50
> Maybe we could just revert this commit and see if we still get reports?
That would be a good start. I suspect the entry in known issues should be made a bit more generic, because the workaround is apparently needed for various kinds of Chromebooks. That’s frontdesk job.
Frontdesk: bonus points if you look into your tails-support@ archives to dig the useful information, pointers and testing reports we’ve gathered about this some months ago.
#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-19 09:16:37
This might actually be caused by a bug in syslinux:
A patch was proposed upstream, applied in Ubuntu, and then proposed to Debian.
emmapeel, assuming I publish an ISO with that patch applied, will you be able to ask the bug reporter to test it?
#7 Updated by mercedes508 2015-03-19 21:05:31
I might ask at least one user to try that ISO.
#8 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-19 23:26:05
- Assignee changed from emmapeel to intrigeri
- QA Check deleted (
Info Needed)
#9 Updated by emmapeel 2015-03-20 09:49:02
intrigeri wrote:
> A patch was proposed upstream, applied in Ubuntu, and then proposed to Debian.
>
> emmapeel, assuming I publish an ISO with that patch applied, will you be able to ask the bug reporter to test it?
sure! he seemed prone to tinkering…
#10 Updated by emmapeel 2015-03-20 09:49:56
intrigeri wrote:
> A patch was proposed upstream, applied in Ubuntu, and then proposed to Debian.
>
> emmapeel, assuming I publish an ISO with that patch applied, will you be able to ask the bug reporter to test it?
sure! user seemed prone to tinkering…
#11 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-20 10:33:56
- Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
Applied in changeset commit:df0275a4bf241e09615aab2c9902d02225376329.
#12 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-20 10:34:48
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
#13 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-20 21:48:28
Applied in changeset commit:a16f7efb78323e2c56a6348773bb47b13d6b8e66.
#14 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-20 23:20:57
- Assignee changed from intrigeri to mercedes508
- QA Check set to Info Needed
The latest Tails/Jessie experimental nightly build has the syslinux patch => please ask affected users to try it and report back. Thanks!
#15 Updated by mercedes508 2015-03-24 19:00:31
- Assignee changed from mercedes508 to intrigeri
The only user I could ask to test that image reported that it works fine.
#16 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-25 13:02:43
- Target version changed from Tails_1.3.2 to Tails_1.4
- QA Check deleted (
Info Needed)
I’ll probably won’t have time to deal with that for 1.3.2. Also, I’d like to give a little bit more time to upstream to comment on the proposed patch (applied by Ubuntu and in Tails/Jessie, but not in Debian nor upstream yet).
#17 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-26 17:21:32
- Assignee deleted (
intrigeri) - % Done changed from 10 to 50
- QA Check set to Ready for QA
#18 Updated by anonym 2015-04-15 09:25:18
- Assignee set to intrigeri
- QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Info Needed
- Feature Branch set to bugfix/9044-syslinux-on-chromebooks
See review’n’merge request thread on tails-dev@.
#19 Updated by intrigeri 2015-04-15 12:42:28
- Assignee changed from intrigeri to anonym
- QA Check changed from Info Needed to Ready for QA
#20 Updated by anonym 2015-04-28 14:04:22
- Status changed from In Progress to Fix committed
- % Done changed from 50 to 100
Applied in changeset commit:7142f681ee9497edda51df784a5500c9bb95cc7b.
#21 Updated by anonym 2015-04-28 14:04:42
- Assignee deleted (
anonym) - QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass
#22 Updated by BitingBird 2015-05-12 18:41:14
- Status changed from Fix committed to Resolved