Hello All,
I have been working on installing Ubuntu on the hp stream 7 on and off since about Xmas. (Windoze and associated partitions are long gone and the UEFI firmware seems to work just fine, in that it boots my preferences).
I have been able to successfully boot a number of different distributions(all ubuntu flavored; Mate, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, UbuntuGNOME, ...), using a combination of methods listed above, and elsewhere (though I can't find it now), via bootableUSB. (Please note, for nothing discussed below was there an SD card in the tablet)
Before I had a chance to sit down and take the project back up, (and notice this awesome post!), I had followed a guide that only required moving bootia32.efi to an /EFI/BOOT folder with the native grub.cfg file and making the modification in 4.
Current Method:
0) Get USB install disk.
1) Copy fedlet /EFI to install disk's /.
2) Delete /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg, move/boot/grub/loopback.cfg to its place.
3) append *efi to linux initrd as described above
4) Replace instances of
with
in grub boot options.
If it doesn't work or display, I just reboot and delete the video and reboot settings from (4) before booting.
Problem:
On every ubuntu distibution I tried, the installation process takes inordinately long. By installation process, I mean ubiquity getting ready to install, not the actual install and by long I mean like, battery-life long.
I think I have some indication that it may have to do with the constant error message I see during boot and operation about a blk partition and rw status (including
). I will get an exact log when I reboot it.
Some History :
I have managed to have it actually install twice (with no particular pattern). Each time after telling grub where to look, booting, and updating / grub-updating, the tablet wouldn't boot. So I was back to the USBdisk.
When I am running ubiquity, I can't see any indication in top, nor info in dmesg that would give me any impression that the install is getting set-up. I have tried with and without thrid-party pkgs and updates (via an ethernet thether that is recognized), as I noticed a bug relating to this and 14.x variants.
This was going nowhere very slowly, and like many a foolish delatante linuxer, i tried to dd an image to mmcblk0 from the install USB. I know that was stupid - It was even studpider was when I tried it again, a couple attempts later. Granted I had rebooted and formatted the partition, but this didn't get me anywhere.
Now:
Now, I can still boot everything, from a USB. There is a 30 gig main device listed at /dev/mmcblk0 and two /mmcblk0boot[x] partitions, in addition to a few mmcblk0zrams, which I can only assume to be old swap spaces? There is also the mmcblk0prmb which seems to be causing issues.
I know for a fact I haven't done near enough to fry the flash memory from writes. That said, I completely grant I may have fried the SD card from dd or otherwise. Hopefully not.
If your impression is that I did not, do you have any recommendations on how to clean upthe internalSD for install? Once installed, it seems to just be a matter of updating the grub and its paths, though if there is something that needs to be done to a new install (like the install-flash-disk (see above)) I would greatly appreciate suggestions.
If you think I did fry the SD, would anyone know if it is possible to boot regularly from an externalSD? I figure there is still 30 gigs of just fine space in there one way or another, and a large SDs are easy to come by. I apologize for asking something I can probably check in the UEFI settings, the tablet is just quite out of juice after my last 24hr attack.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I am obtaining a copy of windoze now, to see if daddy Gates can help. Barring that working, I am going to try and go down the externalSD route, time for homework kept in mind :P .
Many thanks
[Please Note: I have exerience and no formal training with ubuntu/gnu-linux. I also don't post a lot, so please forgive any over obvious points or things I missed.]
I have been working on installing Ubuntu on the hp stream 7 on and off since about Xmas. (Windoze and associated partitions are long gone and the UEFI firmware seems to work just fine, in that it boots my preferences).
I have been able to successfully boot a number of different distributions(all ubuntu flavored; Mate, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, UbuntuGNOME, ...), using a combination of methods listed above, and elsewhere (though I can't find it now), via bootableUSB. (Please note, for nothing discussed below was there an SD card in the tablet)
Before I had a chance to sit down and take the project back up, (and notice this awesome post!), I had followed a guide that only required moving bootia32.efi to an /EFI/BOOT folder with the native grub.cfg file and making the modification in 4.
Current Method:
0) Get USB install disk.
1) Copy fedlet /EFI to install disk's /.
2) Delete /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg, move/boot/grub/loopback.cfg to its place.
3) append *efi to linux initrd as described above
4) Replace instances of
Code:
quiet splashCode:
video=VGA-1:800x1280e reboot=pci,forceIf it doesn't work or display, I just reboot and delete the video and reboot settings from (4) before booting.
Problem:
On every ubuntu distibution I tried, the installation process takes inordinately long. By installation process, I mean ubiquity getting ready to install, not the actual install and by long I mean like, battery-life long.
I think I have some indication that it may have to do with the constant error message I see during boot and operation about a blk partition and rw status (including
Code:
mmcblk0rpmb: timed out sending r/w cmd commandSome History :
I have managed to have it actually install twice (with no particular pattern). Each time after telling grub where to look, booting, and updating / grub-updating, the tablet wouldn't boot. So I was back to the USBdisk.
When I am running ubiquity, I can't see any indication in top, nor info in dmesg that would give me any impression that the install is getting set-up. I have tried with and without thrid-party pkgs and updates (via an ethernet thether that is recognized), as I noticed a bug relating to this and 14.x variants.
This was going nowhere very slowly, and like many a foolish delatante linuxer, i tried to dd an image to mmcblk0 from the install USB. I know that was stupid - It was even studpider was when I tried it again, a couple attempts later. Granted I had rebooted and formatted the partition, but this didn't get me anywhere.
Now:
Now, I can still boot everything, from a USB. There is a 30 gig main device listed at /dev/mmcblk0 and two /mmcblk0boot[x] partitions, in addition to a few mmcblk0zrams, which I can only assume to be old swap spaces? There is also the mmcblk0prmb which seems to be causing issues.
I know for a fact I haven't done near enough to fry the flash memory from writes. That said, I completely grant I may have fried the SD card from dd or otherwise. Hopefully not.
If your impression is that I did not, do you have any recommendations on how to clean upthe internalSD for install? Once installed, it seems to just be a matter of updating the grub and its paths, though if there is something that needs to be done to a new install (like the install-flash-disk (see above)) I would greatly appreciate suggestions.
If you think I did fry the SD, would anyone know if it is possible to boot regularly from an externalSD? I figure there is still 30 gigs of just fine space in there one way or another, and a large SDs are easy to come by. I apologize for asking something I can probably check in the UEFI settings, the tablet is just quite out of juice after my last 24hr attack.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I am obtaining a copy of windoze now, to see if daddy Gates can help. Barring that working, I am going to try and go down the externalSD route, time for homework kept in mind :P .
Many thanks
[Please Note: I have exerience and no formal training with ubuntu/gnu-linux. I also don't post a lot, so please forgive any over obvious points or things I missed.]
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