Re: Jessie wkly build - installer fails on acer 720 chromebook

[Stéphane ANCELOT <sancelot@free.fr>]

Note: I had to set bios settings to use xHCI usb driver, (UHCI,EHCI does 
not seem working well) , and AHCI hard disk mode.
Regards,
S.Ancelot


On 29/01/2015 00:04, john.tiger wrote:
> On 01/25/2015 04:42 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > john.tiger <john.tigernassau@gmail.com> (2015-01-24):
> > > acer 720 chromebook  in development mode seabios
> > I guess there's a missing "C"? (Acer C720?)
> >
> > > debian-testing-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso wkly build 1/19/2015
> > >
> > > install screen appears, click on either graphical or non-graphical 
> > > install -
> > > screen flashes then goes back to seabios screen
> > >
> > > 1) this usb build works on macbook
> > > 2) debian wheezy installs on this machine
> > > 3) fedora 20 installs on this machine
> > > 4) fedora 21 flashes and does not work
> > >
> > > thus sounds like something related to newer kernel or packages
> > This is likely. However, bisecting to find out what's happening without
> > the hardware would likely be tedious.
> >
> > It seems there was at least some fun related to the backlight, see this
> > commit:
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dfb3d47b2369ad752ab9f7438bbf9949524b46ae
> >
> > The build you mentioned should have had this fix though (first appeared
> > in a Debian package with the 3.16.5-1 upload).
> >
> > Cc-ing debian-kernel@.
>
> Here is more info:
>
> debian-testing-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso (1/22/2015)
>  => boots but when menu is selected, crashes back to seabios
>
> debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (1/22/2015)
>  => boots but when menu is selected, crashes back to seabios
> - now others have said they have installed with this (perhaps older 
> kernel)
>
> debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso (1/22/2015) => installs fine
>
> not sure if this is bug that should be reported or maybe posted on 
> wiki page