Trisquel Samsung Chromebook v1 Kevin Support Group
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I recently was able to install Trisquel in this machine, and I want to share how I did it. I’m attaching a tutorial step by step, hopping it will help other people.
You might check the review I did on it here, and decide if the device is worth buying on your own.
Since this computer has it’s particularities, I thought on also opening this forum post so that anybody can share its tricks and experiences. For instance, since this computer’s keyboard doesn’t have most of the keys you find in a regular keyboard, I will share in future how I managed to configure the keyboard to my liking and make keys to work like the Caps Lock key.
I share with a friend how I feel I wanted to open a self help group with twelve steps with the first step being accepting we’re powerless, after everything I have gone throw to make this device work as I wanted, so here it is.
Sorry I forgot to attach the tutorial, but here it is.
| Pièce jointe | Taille |
|---|---|
| chromebook trisquel 11 install process.pdf | 46.51 Ko |
I create a wiki manual so that it's easier to update the tutorial step by step:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/chromebook-computers
Also I screwed the link to the review, here it is: https://trisquel.info/es/samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-review
Last thing I want to share on the Libreboot installation is: If you try to run the flashprog we compile from a USB memory or the SD it will complain you don’t have permissions to do so, even when using sudo or given the file executable permissions, this is because the SD or USB memories haven’t been mounted with executable permissions. To do so you need to use:
sudo mount -o remount,exec /the/mount/location
I’ll ask Leah if he believe adding all this to the Libreboot tutorial will be useful. In the mean while I leave it all
PLEASE IGNORE AS WELL this last replay as well. It is referring to a not Trisquel related gripe of mine with the Libreboot flashing, which is the reason why I ended up deleting all my last posts. Also it is base on a misunderstanding. See this post:
https://lists.sr.ht/~libreboot/libreboot/%3Ca6b5cad1-0672-420f-8964-b737ae8babe0 @ gmail.com%3E#%3C6312cb33-83f8-49f5-b857-1d748aa6fcfc @ gmail.com%3E
I have requested a change to Libreboot's documentation, which anybody interested on flashing this machine may want to see: https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbwww/pulls/136
The libreboot site says "Write the iso file to a micro sdcard." Instead of downloading the Debian .iso, can't the Trisquel .iso be used instead? If not, why not?
https://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_11.0.1_arm64.iso
It seems desirable to be able to bootstrap exclusively from within Trisquel without needing a different distro and, if that's not possible, to identify why.
In the manual I wrote (https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/chromebook-computers) for it I specified the current situation with the arm64 installer iso which I'm hopping explains the reason why debootstrap requires to be executed form Debian 12:
"The current Trisquel 11.0.1 arm64 installer...has a problem to start on Libreboot’s supported Chromebooks: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/canoeboot-has-uefi-support-arm64-chromebooks-miniiso-installer-doesnt-seem-want-work#comment-178701"
I hope this explains it @jxself. Many people in the forum said it was a good idea to create this manual entry. But I understand that having to relay on an non FSF approved distro is not ideal.
I'm guessing it might be posible to run:
sudo debootstrap --arch arm64 aramo /mnt/deboot https://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/
From a x84 machine. But chroot to it won't do any good, since I'm guessing that running grub-efi-arm64 from it wouldn't work would it?
Maybe an iso could be made with trisquel already installed maybe? and then dd to an SD? And it wouldn't need to have a lot of disk space since it would only be use to debootstarp to the internal mmc. Any idea how we could go around doing that? Best of course will be to find why the arm64 installer is not working actually. Any idea how I could go around to try to debug that?
The link
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/canoeboot-has-uefi-support-arm64-chromebooks-miniiso-installer-doesnt-seem-want-work#comment-178701
Gives me a "Page not found"
Mmmmm. How odd, I used to visit that link and I made comments, but I can't even find them on my user activity either.
Anyway, it was originally shared with me here https://trisquel.info/es/forum/arm64-already-supported-trisquel#comment-178548 by user @Avron . It basically described the exact same behavior I'm experimenting with Trisquel's arm64 installer (the exact same you pointed add) where the screen stays black after choosing "Install" in the menu. Other options like "Graphical Install" does the same. @jxself if you could tell me something I could try please let me know. I have tested two different models of SD cards (thought the same brand) and a USB memory, but all of them do the same thing. The black stays up indefinitely.
I tested Ubuntu 22.04.5 Jammy (which Trisquel 11.0.1 is base on) installer and failed the same way. While Ubuntu 24.04.1 installer worked fine, which makes me hopeful that this issue will be solved on the next Trisquel release.
UPDATE: I edited the manual to reflect the reason now.