Acer C720 Chromebook

Zach Villers greyman at fastmail.us
Mon Aug 3 19:02:13 UTC 2015


Sorry if I am posting to the wrong list.

I am trying to install Fedora on my Acer C720 Chromebook. Rawhide, F22,
and F21 .iso's written to a usb drive via dd will not get past the grub
splash screen. I've tried changing the boot parameters, to no avail.

The C720 currently has a working Xubuntu install on it, so I know I have
set the machine's bios up properly. I have been able to find this
information regarding a possible syslinux issue;
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-February/023209.html

I also posted some of the information in this reddit thread;
https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/booting-the-acer-c720-with-fedora-20-live/

I am currently trying to install with a Fedora 20 image using these
instructions;
https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/booting-the-acer-c720-with-fedora-20-live/

There are reports for various Chromebooks on bugzilla;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=chromebook so I know
that people have been able to install. I would be willing to test any
patches that can be provided, but when I tried the patch of syslinux
suggested in the syslinux mailing list, I still could not get the iso i
created with (what I thought was the patched version of syslinux) to
work.

TIA and apologies for the ramble.

-- 
  Zach Villers
  greyman at fastmail.us


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