Creating images with custom system

[Eeeevox]

Is there a way to just dump ChromeOs kernel from a prebuild iso for your system and just replace all the other partitions and point the kernel to them?

I'm wondering couz i'm not a big fun apt and outdated packages and just think that a guide or even a script that would to this automaticlly would be supper useful. I can help with the script the problem is that i only know java and python so yeah

[thenameisluk]

@Eeeevox using chromeos kernel will likely cause gpu drivers issues

have you ever heard of debian trixie/testing it's basically rolling release but if you need something even more bleeding edge you can use debian sid

if you still want to really badly to use other linux there are projects bringing arch to kukui and trogdor chromebook

if you want some more exotic distro either read the srcipts the were used to create this images that are literally in this repo (it's not hard to modify them, it's just bash) or get one of the images and bootstrap your distro of choice onto 4th partition and call it a day

if you have any additional questions let mw know

[Eeeevox]

@thenameisluk i've tried to bootstrap my own distro but i cant quit figure out how

I copied the first and second (labeled Chrome Os kernel) partitions from the image with gnome disks and i cant get the partitions to write or even read, can you recommend me any software to do that?

[thenameisluk]

@Eeeevox
bruh
just flash the image we provide

dd if=image of=/dev/sd? status=progress

Tip. replace ? with letter of your flashdrive

mount root partition

mount /dev/sd?4 /mnt

then clear it

rm -rf /mnt/*

bootstrap onto /mnt

chroot there and set up fstab to mount partition LABEL=rootpart in / and LABEL=bootpart in /boot

remember to run

sudo sync

before unplugging any storage device

and under not circumstances should you play with partitions (remove and create them) if you don't know what you are doing (just resize them if you need)

make sure your distro has an arm version and that you bootstrap it

if you are unable to do it please reconsider using whatever you want to use, just because "cool kids" use it, it doesn't mean you have to use it too
especially if you have no idea what you are doing

[thenameisluk]

o yeah also remember to install kernel modules onto your new distro

just copy them from /lib/modules/*
use the ones provided with image

remember to copy them with -p flag to preserve permissions