I installed the build from that guy – Hexxeh – 👻 This server has been sent to the retirement home for domains. . I don’t understand how he managed to fit a 1.9GB image onto a 2GB partition – well, that part I could understand, but it split the USB drive into 6 partitions, of which 3 contain data (1.3GB) and 3 are unallocated (0.7GB). This layout can’t be changed with anything, not even with Windows Disk Management.
I tried booting it on 3 PCs: first my 5-year-old HP laptop, where Chromium OS doesn’t recognize the network card. Then a 4-year-old Toshiba laptop, where some kind of BSOD happens (Chromium apparently has its own blue screen of death too) and the laptop restarts immediately.
And finally a desktop that’s a few years old with an Award BIOS, which can boot from just about anything, but not from a flash drive. And the Win32DiskImager.exe utility can only write the image to a flash drive. Back to the images. I have a second disk image here too, but it looks like it’s the same thing, just an older img file. But note that this one is 1.9GB larger, so maybe it already has drivers for my network card built into the kernel. As for Wi-Fi, there’s no coverage in my room, so it’s pretty much useless to me.
And it’s suspicious that the image can’t be opened in anything; the only way to get it onto a USB drive is to use the official utility, probably made by the hacker mentioned above. Right now I’m downloading the image for VMware Player. Anyway, after my disappointment with standard Linux distributions, this blog might come back to life a bit – with articles about Chrome/ium OS.