Re: Why not a cheaper, good ARM laptop?

On Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:55:56 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > not used them as much recently, but last I checked (a few weeks/months > ago), both Pinebook and Pinebook Pro with linux kernels from Debian > Bookworm (6.1.x). I have not checked newer kernels. Hmm... I tried with 6.11.2 and didn't g

Re: Why not a cheaper, good ARM laptop?

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:24:02 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2024-10-31, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > There's also Pinebook and Pinebook Pro. It is Open Source hardware. > > . > > Having largely happily* used both the Pinebook and Pinebook Pro as > prim

Re: Debian on Lenovo Chromebook (ARMv8)

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:54:09 +0300 Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > > Is there anywhere (besides this list) that I should be > > reading/subscribed to to learn more about debian-installer support > > for Chromebooks? > > Installer discussion in general happens at the debian-boot@ list and > #debian-boo

Re: Debian on Lenovo Chromebook (ARMv8)

I'll start with the most important thing first. On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 14:14:33 +0200 Thomas U. Grüttmüller wrote: > • /dev/mmcblk0p4 which is mounted as / is only 2.9 GB large, so most >  of the MMC is still free space. So the next step would be to enlarge >  this partitition, but I don’t

Re: Debian on Lenovo Chromebook (ARMv8)

On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 18:31:10 +0300 Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 31/03/2023 00:50, Brian Sammon wrote: > >> I currently have a Lenovo Duet 5 chromebook (with ARM processor) that > >> debian off an SD Card via USB. > > The SC7180 one? Does it work with the Debian-bui

Re: Debian on Lenovo Chromebook (ARMv8)

I currently have a Lenovo Duet 5 chromebook (with ARM processor) that runs debian off an SD Card via USB. > The problem is that instead of a normal BIOS or UEFI, thelaptop has the > nasty ChromeOS bootloader which refuses to boot the normal Debian ARM64 > Netinst installer. The only thing it want

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:57:09 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 15:25:18 Brian Sammon wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:04:01 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > They acknowledged it, and told me how to fix it, but the fix cost &

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:04:01 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > They acknowledged it, and told me how to fix it, but the fix cost more > than the odroid, a jtag programmer and a special cable that cost well > over $125 is required. And someone else recently advised me that UEFI > bypassing in the bi

ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 > > I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux > installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only option I could find > in the bios was to disable the tcp chip, which