Computers/Asus Chromebook C201

1 Status

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Since then we need to check how to get WiFi working on it (Bug 2261), and we need to check if it still works as it used some kernel patches.

2 Asus Chromebook C201 partitioning requirements

• the emmc / micro sd / usb drive must be GPT
• make the first partition large enough to fit the kernel. 32M is ok.
• set the typecode for this partition to 66 (ChromeOS kernel) (type code 7f00 in gdisk)
• some attribute bits for this partition must be set for it to boot. you can do this with fdisk, gdisk, parted, sfdisk, or sgdisk. here is one way:

# sgdisk -A 1:set:48 -A 1:set:56 /dev/sdX

you can read more about these bits on the chromium-os wiki

3 Bootloader

Bootloader functionality is provided by depthcharge, which is included with libreboot (and the stock bios).

the kernel must be flashed to the first partition. if you installed linux-libre-chromebook with pacstrap, you can manually reflash it:

# dd if=/boot/vmlinux.kpart of=/dev/<KERNEL_PARTITION>

if you want to change the kernel command line parameters you can use futility which is provided by vboot-utils

to see information about how the kernel is packed (including the parameters):

# futility show vmlinux.kpart

to change the parameters, you will need to unpack and repack the kernel. the following example shows how to add serial console output during boot

# cd /boot
# mkdir tmp_unpack
# cd tmp_unpack
# futility --debug vbutil_kernel --get-vmlinuz ../vmlinux.kpart --vmlinuz-out vmlinuz
# echo "console=ttyS2,115200n8 earlyprintk=ttyS2,115200n8 init=/sbin/init root=PARTUUID=%U/PARTNROFF=1 rootwait rw noinitrd" > cmdline
# dd if=/dev/zero of=bootloader.bin bs=512 count=1
# wget https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/linux-libre/kernel.keyblock
# wget https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/linux-libre/kernel_data_key.vbprivk
# futility --debug vbutil_kernel \
           --pack vmlinux.kpart \
           --version 1 \
           --vmlinuz vmlinuz \
           --arch arm \
           --keyblock kernel.keyblock \
           --signprivate kernel_data_key.vbprivk \
           --config cmdline \
           --bootloader bootloader.bin