crouton-crucial

A little extra help for using Crouton, the Chromium OS universal chroot environment

Advantages

• save chroot config in a file the perform common operations with less to remember
• easily create and retain a defined number of backups for each Crouton instance
• disable power management in the OS before starting up to address the problem of the OS having USB persist disabled

Files

• crucial.rc: annotated runcom file for Crouton environments; required by crucial.sh; edit this first
• crucial.sh: starts a Crouton chroot; optionally first installing, backing up, or updating
• keepawake.sh: a wrapper script optionally called by crucial.sh that disables suspend before enter-chroot

Bootstrapping

• download and unpack the zip file
• edit crucial.rc to configure a new or existing chroot
• press ctrl-alt-t to open a crosh terminal
• invoke bash as root (requires Chromebook Developer Mode)

crosh> shell

• run Crucial and bootstrap Crouton

$ sudo bash ~/Downloads/crouton-crucial-master/crucial.sh -s