I can only imagine how that feels not having a setup ready to validate such tricky sample of work, but i keep thinking Expirion already survives this other test most nicely: to install (& successfully reboot...) from a 'YUMi-exFAT' USB drive, which spares us time & effort evaluating LIVE mode only to decide if it's possible to go further with more permanent adoption, since on a UEFi system exploiting that tool it turns out every new .ISO update no longer requires a slow/exclusive procedure as when dealing with Windows Rufus & co.
Too bad the owner of a ChomeBook Lenovo N23 didn't keep us posted with his progress ~2 weeks ago, while i'd gladly check on my Atom CherryTrail based transformer LapTop if i could. Yet i may happen to have some potentially comforting news for you: Linuxium for Atom "respins" being now gone this leaves such a select niche relatively unoccupied for Expirion and so i'm pleased to point a finger at this script:
Perhaps an emulator would correctly behave as a 32-bits machine but i vaguely recall these either proved having limited hardware port(s) support and/or only allowed short-term "trial" licensing. What i know better is that in some rare cases it was OKay to only copy these few /efi/boot/ supplemental files, but in others GrUB would drop to its CLI and leave me there for a lack of access to the rest of it. Searching for the « ia32 » string through that old script i find it refers to at least one directly-related debian 'grub-efi-ia32*.deb' package and sure enough if i dig inside then there's directory '/usr/lib/grub/i386-efi/' full of module files indeed. In addition the script refers to 'grub-efi-ia32-bin' and a command with this syntax:
So this does confirm my advice of November 4.
In any case it would be great to read that Expirion has been made compatible with these budget ChromeBooks and more!
Too bad the owner of a ChomeBook Lenovo N23 didn't keep us posted with his progress ~2 weeks ago, while i'd gladly check on my Atom CherryTrail based transformer LapTop if i could. Yet i may happen to have some potentially comforting news for you: Linuxium for Atom "respins" being now gone this leaves such a select niche relatively unoccupied for Expirion and so i'm pleased to point a finger at this script:
Perhaps an emulator would correctly behave as a 32-bits machine but i vaguely recall these either proved having limited hardware port(s) support and/or only allowed short-term "trial" licensing. What i know better is that in some rare cases it was OKay to only copy these few /efi/boot/ supplemental files, but in others GrUB would drop to its CLI and leave me there for a lack of access to the rest of it. Searching for the « ia32 » string through that old script i find it refers to at least one directly-related debian 'grub-efi-ia32*.deb' package and sure enough if i dig inside then there's directory '/usr/lib/grub/i386-efi/' full of module files indeed. In addition the script refers to 'grub-efi-ia32-bin' and a command with this syntax:
« grub-install --force --target=i386-efi ...»
So this does confirm my advice of November 4.
In any case it would be great to read that Expirion has been made compatible with these budget ChromeBooks and more!
