Boot Google’s Chromium OS live from USB
While still early in it’s development stages, Google’s upcoming Chrome OS is a neat OS to play with — especially on a netbook. While the Virtual Machine images floating around are nice for a glimpse, if you really want to immerse yourself in the Chrome OS experience it’s best to boot it from the metal. This can be achieved by “burning” this Chromium OS image to 3GB or greater USB or SD media. Here’s a torrent.
If you’re familiar with dd it’s simply a matter of downloading the torrent, unzipping and imaging the included chrome_os.img to your media. For example, dd if=’chrome_os.img’ of=/dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the path of your removable media.
If you’re in Windows you’ll be delighted to find that the linked zip contains a copy of WinDD, as well as writing instructions. More information can be found at this makeuseof.com article. Important tidbits include the fact that the default user and password are chronos / password and that a terminal can be accessed by CTRL+ALT+T. Oh, and the xrandr command is available if your desired resolution isn’t detected automatically. The syntax is typically xrandr -s 1024×768 or similar.
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Chromium Live USB….
Impossible to login…always saying that “network is not connected and local login failed”
Does somebody knows why ??
Does somebody was enable to login with this Live USB Chromium ??
Dwe
My bad….I think the .img corruptet !! Now It’s ok and Awsome !! =)
Dwe
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Worked smoothly on Asus eeePc 1008ha logging in as chronos and then activating wifi.
Resolution is ok, touchpad is ok, power off button. Fn keys not working. Not sure about webcam, card reader.
Unfortunately it is not possible to save network settings so every time you log in you got to log in as chronos but it is a persistant live usb os (can we say distro? After all it is linux) so it will remember everything else once logged in.
Will keep the usb at hand.
W.
Hi guys thanks for the tricks n tips u share on this site it helps a lot..
plz do continue d same…..
Thanks again.