Has anyone here tried to run the official Chrome OS images work, rather than Chromium OS, which lacks Android, Google Assistant, and Flash support?
It appears with some fiddling around, it's possible to get the genuine Chrome OS images to work on an ordinary Windows laptop. Mine is a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series with a touch screen. At first, audio and wireless didn't work but after copying over the firmware directory from Arnoldthebat's Special Build and removing a kernel module blacklist, everything started working. 3D acceleration, sound, touch screen, web cam, touch pad, Android, etc. all work and installed to the hard drive.
It's not perfect, however. For some odd reason it takes like 3 minutes or so to login with my user account at the login screen, whereas on Chromium OS, I log in instantly. Once booted, everything is fine, though. Furthermore, laptop suspend/sleep (S3 power state) doesn't function properly (probably due to the older 4.4 kernel with newer ones having better laptop ACPI support), so I made sure to turn that off in the ChromeOS power settings. Lastly, automatic updates won't work. It sees the Omaha update server but the logs are showing that it refuses to connect because the update tool doesn't detect valid Chromebook BIOS firmware and/or hardware security module.
Out of curiosity, I replaced the 4.4.86 kernel with Arnoldthebat's Special Build 4.14 kernel and March 2nd 4.4.118 daily build kernel with the ChromeOS image and it booted fine and showed up in uname, however, the Android container wouldn't start but some of the ARC++ container mount points were still be made via df. ARC++ error messages in /var/log showed permission denied and file not found messages when using the other kernels. So it appears there is some special code compiled into with the official ChromeOS kernels that aren't included with the FOSS Chromium kernel sources?
Anyway, here is a screenshot:
Has anyone here tried to run the official Chrome OS images work, rather than Chromium OS, which lacks Android, Google Assistant, and Flash support?
It appears with some fiddling around, it's possible to get the genuine Chrome OS images to work on an ordinary Windows laptop. Mine is a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series with a touch screen. At first, audio and wireless didn't work but after copying over the firmware directory from Arnoldthebat's Special Build and removing a kernel module blacklist, everything started working. 3D acceleration, sound, touch screen, web cam, touch pad, Android, etc. all work and installed to the hard drive.
It's not perfect, however. For some odd reason it takes like 3 minutes or so to login with my user account at the login screen, whereas on Chromium OS, I log in instantly. Once booted, everything is fine, though. Furthermore, laptop suspend/sleep (S3 power state) doesn't function properly (probably due to the older 4.4 kernel with newer ones having better laptop ACPI support), so I made sure to turn that off in the ChromeOS power settings. Lastly, automatic updates won't work. It sees the Omaha update server but the logs are showing that it refuses to connect because the update tool doesn't detect valid Chromebook BIOS firmware and/or hardware security module.
Out of curiosity, I replaced the 4.4.86 kernel with Arnoldthebat's Special Build 4.14 kernel and March 2nd 4.4.118 daily build kernel with the ChromeOS image and it booted fine and showed up in uname, however, the Android container wouldn't start but some of the ARC++ container mount points were still be made via df. ARC++ error messages in /var/log showed permission denied and file not found messages when using the other kernels. So it appears there is some special code compiled into with the official ChromeOS kernels that aren't included with the FOSS Chromium kernel sources?
Anyway, here is a screenshot: