Hi Simon,

On 11/18/2015 08:52 PM, Simon Glass wrote:

On 18 November 2015 at 19:08, Steve Muckle steve.muckle@linaro.org wrote:

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Does anyone have instructions on modding the chromebook 2 Peach Pi such that it is not necessary to hit ctrl-U when booting custom kernels? I found some instructions (which may be incomplete) for the SS Chromebook "snow" suggesting it may be possible.

Does this help?

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-dev...

Unfortunately no, there's nothing there AFAICS about permanently altering the bootloader or settings to prefer USB booting without hitting ctrl-U.

From what I've found making this change would likely mean opening the

chromebook and shorting pads or some other trick to enable overwriting the bootloader on the device. At least, that's what is partially documented on this page about installing Arch on an earlier Samsung chromebook model.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_Chromebook_(ARM)

thanks, Steve

On 11/19/2015 10:01 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:

However, note that you can send the Ctrl-U over the serial console too, so any scripts you use to automated the boot can do it that way.

Wow, it's really surprising to me that that works. Thanks!