Re: On a Samsung ARM Chromebook, could nv-uboot easily boot to stock linux kernels, by way of ARM-GRUB?

2014-01-04 Thread Subharo Bhikkhu
Hello Luke, On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Subharo Bhikkhu > wrote: > > > Indeed. It seems that the Utopian technological future that I was > hoping for, where solid state hardware would last *even longer

Re: On a Samsung ARM Chromebook, could nv-uboot easily boot to stock linux kernels, by way of ARM-GRUB?

2014-01-02 Thread Subharo Bhikkhu
t, and this planned obsolescence was very intentionally engineered (as you explained with the e-fuses, "verified" bootloader, etc.). so yeah, if someone's already done custom-compiled packages then > you are very, very lucky. > > Thanks for helping me to appreciate Karl L.'s work. I'm now on my way to following Karl L's procedure to install Debian Jesse. So this story has a somewhat happy ending. Cheers, Subharo Bhikkhu

On a Samsung ARM Chromebook, could nv-uboot easily boot to stock linux kernels, by way of ARM-GRUB?

2014-01-01 Thread Subharo Bhikkhu
Hello, Firstly, huge props to the Debian ARM gods who have done so much wonderful work so far, especially Marcin Juszkiewicz, Olof Johansson, Andrew Wafaa, and Jay Lee. I have a Samsung ARM Cromebook. I'm running Chrubuntu 13.04 in the internal 16GB eMMC. The security updates are about to run o