Maccraft123/Cadmium

Install on SD Card (install-to-here) results in root partition full

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cvmiller commented

I am still learning Cadmium, and not ready to blow away ChromeOS. So I have been using the 'install-to-here' script to install on the SD Card.

This works, but the partition is only 2GB, and fills up (when installing phosh UI). So, I took out the SD card, used gparted in another machine to "grow" the size of the root partition (it is a 32GB SD card), which looks like it worked.

However, when I try to boot at the white screen with ctrl-U, I get a beep, and the SD card will no longer boot.

How does one grow the root partition in Cadmium? TIA

cvmiller commented

I was unable to find a successful way to grow the root partition on the installer media (SD card or USB stick).

I eventually used 2 SD cards, one with the installer, and one in a USB adapter. I did the following to install on the second SD card:

  1. copy install-to-emmc script to install-sd
  2. Edit install-sd adding the following below the EMMC line, thus hard coding the variable to /dev/sda
    EMMC=/dev/sda
  3. Run install-sd and I selected UI as 'none'.
  4. Rebooted with just the second SD (now freshly installed) plugged into the Chromebook
  5. Noted that the root partition is now ~30GB
  6. Used apt to install lxde, which pulls in lightdm Chromebook works quite well

At some point, I'll be ready to wipe Chrome from this machine (an Asus C201PA), but for now, I am happy running it off an SD card.

Maccraft123 commented

Yea, i'll add resizing root partition in future

cvmiller commented

I look forward to it.

Wooty-B commented

I was unable to find a successful way to grow the root partition on the installer media (SD card or USB stick).

I eventually used 2 SD cards, one with the installer, and one in a USB adapter. I did the following to install on the second SD card:

1. copy install-to-emmc script to install-sd

2. Edit install-sd adding the following below the EMMC line, thus hard coding the variable to /dev/sda
   `EMMC=/dev/sda`

3. Run `install-sd` and I selected UI as 'none'.

4. Rebooted with just the second SD (now freshly installed) plugged into the Chromebook

5. Noted that the root partition is now ~30GB

6. Used `apt` to install `lxde`, which pulls in `lightdm` Chromebook works quite well

At some point, I'll be ready to wipe Chrome from this machine (an Asus C201PA), but for now, I am happy running it off an SD card.

In case anyone else is looking for this, the exact line you need to change is a few lines down at the beginning of the script:

#a fancy hack
MMCDEV=/dev/sdX (For USB)
MMCDEV=/dev/mmcblkX (For uSD/eMMC)

My uSD install also suffered from the inability to resize using f2fs tools even from another system, hope this gets implemented soon as that is the only real issue I have come across using/installing Cadmium.