002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to etal! Chemin OS PiMyLifeUp Select Page Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to Install Chromium OS & by Gus | ff Mar 26, 2016 | ® Beginner | ® 34 comments The Raspberry Pi Chromium operating system is a great alternative to Raspbian offering a simple, fast & secure experience for anyone who find themselves on the web a lot. Now version of the operating system is a work in progress so there are still quite a few issues at the time of this tutorial. They are constantly working on this so be sure to check them out at their subreddit or the official website for any updates on development. If in progress work doesn't bother you and would love to get chromium on your Pi, then let's get to it! 200+ PAGES OF AWESOME RASPBERRY PI PROJECTS ; hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS should also mention that for me there was a noticeable improvement in using the Raspberry Pi 3 over the 2 with this image. | came across fewer issues and it just seemed to work better overall. If you want to hear me talk through the process of installing and any extra little bits that you might want to know then please check out the video above. If you like it, then please don't forget to subscribe to the channel to stay up to date. Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to Install Chromium OS = Equipment All the equipment that you will need for this tutorial is listed below. If you're just starting out, then a starter kit will have everything you need to get started. Recommended: BW Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 2 16Gb+ Micro SD Card © Ethernet Cord or Wifi dongle (If you're using a Pi3 you don't need a WiFi dongle) & Raspberry Pi Power Supply Optional: O Raspberry Pi Case [USB Keyboard h USB Mouse hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?capuz017 Rasptrry Chromium: Lear How onal Creeium OS & Installing the Raspberry Pi Chromium OS ‘As with most of the operating system installation guides I have done this one is pretty easy. You will be wiping the SD card so make sure you don't have anything you want to keep on there. & Download & Preparing the SD Card 1. Firstly, we need to get the latest version of the Chromium OS. Their main project website has been down for quite sometime and looks like it wor't be coming back. You can still find all the released versions over at their sourceforge mirror (You will most likely want the files in the folder). Raspberry Alternatively, you can install Flint OS which is built on chromium os and still in active development. 2. On this page scroll down to downloads and then find the latest version for your Pi. For example, CHROMIUMRPI is for the Raspberry Pi 3. 3. Once downloaded you will need to unzip the file. If you don't have any zipping tool installed, | suggest something like 7zip if you're using Windows (Mac should unzip by double clicking on it). 4, Next you will also need a formatting tool. The one | always use and I highly recommend you use is called SD formatter and can be downloaded here. 5, Once downloaded simply install it. 6. Once installed insert the SD card into your PC and check the drive letter allocated for it(For example g:/). Format your drive. All cf the data format fi onthe dive willbe lect when you SS" xe SD, SDHC and SDXC Logos are trademarks of 0-80, LLC. rive: [i [_ fettech | Sie 207 G3 Volume Label Format Option QUICK FORMAT, FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT OFF [Format | Ext | 7. Now open up the SD formatter and select your driver letter in the required field. Once confirmed that itis all correct press format 8, Now that's done we need to install the image onto the SD card. To do this download and install the win32diskimager. 9. Now open up the win32diskimager and select the image we extracted earlier. Itis also super important make sure the drive letter is correct as you don't want to wipe a random drive, 10. Once you have confirmed everything is correct, click on write. hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?oao42017 Reeperty Chromium: Learn How t tall Chromium OS ‘Sb Win Disk Imager - a x Image Fle Device .t.tar Raspberry F3)/Lennybruceo#.a/LermyBruceo.4. mg] (@3][THsi)_ = ‘Copy | 7) MDSHash: 84c239a37abd8ciDabscf6385622FF5 | Progress: Read || wite eat 11. Once it is done simply eject and remove the SD card from the computer. Now we're ready to insert the SD card into the Raspberry ind boot it up. GJ First Boot Up Booting up is a pretty easy process but | will just quickly go through it. If you have ever owned a Chromebook before then the process is pretty much exactly the same. When you first boot up you will be presented with a screen asking for your language, keyboard type and the network you will be using. When I wrote this tutorial the WiFi wasn't fully supported so it's suggested that you use Ethernet. I did try WiFi but found some weird issues with it. Next you will be asked to sign into your google account. If you don't wish to do this, you can continue as a guest however nothing will be personalised to you and you will also need to login to your google account manually. If your login it will sync your preferences and then you can start using the chromium operating system like normal. I have found that sometimes on setup it gets stuck in an endless loop a simple reboot will fix t hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?ovouait7 fapbery Cron: Leama tl Chemin 08 (&) Troubleshooting Now as I mentioned Raspberry Pi Chromium operating system is a work in progress and will contain issues that might be a little annoying if you want a flawless experience. It's important to know these are likely to be patched and fixed by the people working on this port. if you want to see this project grow, make sure you throw your support behind them and let them know of any issues that you come across. As | mentioned earlier the Raspberry Pi 3 certainly performed a lot better than the 2 so if you want a better experience you will need to pick up the latest version of the Pi. You will also find that netflix isn't really working in the current version but the devs are aware of this and looking into it. SD Card Formatting Help You notice once you write the image to the SD card it will disappear from your file explorer. This is really annoying if you need to wipe it or reinstall a different operating system. | go through the steps to getting it back in working condition below. Either search & open diskpart or open up run and enter cisk: Inside the terminal window enter the following: List volume It should show something like this, your volume will have no label and have a size of roughly 121mb and the type will be removable. Be super careful in these next few steps as you will be wiping the drive. Enter following to select the volume you wish to wipe. (Change x to the number of the volume) select volume x Now simply write clear and this will reset the SD card and can now be reformatted, hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to neal! Cheam OS | ELcqwnoowsyysemazlsepartore a x re Pee) eecterny estcty eet ne ieee ceeeay fae Con ce cata You will notice that you may get an error saying access is denied to the disk but you will find that it has correctly wiped the disk and is accessible in Windows again. Thope you have been able to get the Raspberry Pi Chromium installed and working correctly. | hope that itis proving to be a decent alternative to Ifyou come across any problems or anything else that you would like to say, then please feel free to leave a comment below. Jumpstart Raspberry Pi Projects with Cayenne ‘ecelerate your mate: pojecs with the fest eag-and-dcp LT bude The FREE Raspberry Pi Crash Course Email TE More Projects & Guides! hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS Dead Easy Guide To Installing Dead Easy Raspberry Pi XBMC NOOBS Raspberry Pi Media Center ‘An Amazing DIY Raspberry Pi Music Player ® 34 Comments kpg on March 27, 2016 at 10:23 pm ‘The downloaded image is only 8GB, why do you need a 16 GB SD Card? Reply Alan Bates on March 28, 2016 at 4:34 am I would think that it would be useful to have space to save your files etc as Reply well as the OS ‘acromm on March 28, 2016 at 1:29 am Hi, great tutorial! Did you tried to play videos from youtube on ChromeOS? Gus on March 28, 2016 at 10:11 am. Iitpsitpimyifup.comiraspoorry-pi-chromium? ci002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS Hi Acromm, Yes | did! They worked pretty well there was a bit of a lag going from window to fullscreen but apart from that seemed to perform pretty well. | did hear there are issues with netflix videos at the moment that may be fixed in a future build. Reply a Jorrit on March 28, 2016 at 6:26 am When | boot my rpi3, the screen remains black, how can I fix this? Reply a Gus on March 28, 2016 at 10:23 am This sounds like it could be related to this problem here. Reply a Damon Key on March 28, 2016 at 805 am cannot reset the micro sd card from diskpart .... it gives me the error "The request could not be performed because of an 1/0 device error.” Reply a Gus on March 28, 2016 at 10:15 am Hi Damon, That's strange, are you able to restart your computer and do the process again. | remember getting a similar issue once. Reply a Rjkj on March 28, 2016 at 9:09 am Hi, I've a little problem with built-in wifi of the Pi3, it's don't recognized from Chromium and | must us an externel dongle to use the wi 'm the first with tiss little issue ? hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS Thank alot. Gus on March 28, 2016 at 10:20 am. There are currently issues with the WiFi both the inbuilt and dongles. They're looking at addressing these issues in future builds. There is guide on WiFi that might be able to help here. Reply was on Aptil 1, 2016 at 10:20 arn hi, i cannot listen in my pi3, i have problem with the sound in the chromium. Reply a gychang on April 3, 2016 at 219 am very nice, | will try this on Pi2, anyone compare with the performance of ubuntu- mate, raspian and this on RP2? Reply Trying this on a Pi 2b. Using Chromium 4. It gets as far as asking for my Google account details and then tries to log on. Two seconds in it freezes... Tried it using a wifi dongle. then rebooted with that disconnected and CATS connected. Just freezes. Any suggestions? Andrew on April 3, 2016 at §:41 am Thanks, Ridley on October 28, 2016 at 2:06 arn CTRL Alt F2 and set the time and Date then retry Reply hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium?002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS Peter on April 4, 2016 at 5:41 am Hi Lam a newbie still waiting for the hardware the way | am reading this the sd card is the “hard drive” and you are installing the os ont, and you can make as many different ones as you like just switching the card and rebooting to change operating systems? 50 you would want to have the bigger sd cards for storage room? Is this correct? or can you use the attached usb drive for the storage drive, or both looking forward to the mail delivery. Reply | followed all the instructions but CUB will not boot. The keyboard and mouse lights flash randomly but no show on the monitor. Reply Worked out the fix. The problem was the power adaptor was not powerful enough. Working well now with a more powerful adaptor. Thanks Reply Thanks for your time to create your tutorials ross Kirbyshire on April 19, 2016 at 6:32 pm. ross kirbyshire on April 21, 2016 at 11:28 am ish on April 21, 2016 at 3:53 pm can you watch videos from pendrives after installing chromium? Reply Ihave v0.5 of chrome is on RPI2 everything is working fine expect wifi and audio unable to play sound boule to see the volume bar and output options bon2835 Jay on May 29, 2016 at 814.am, hitps:pimylitoup.comiraspoorry:pi-chromium? 1077002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS Charlotte on May 31, 2016 at 1:37 am Your tutorial seems very helpful although I haver't tried it yet. Being a complete novice, | bought a starter kit with a Pi 3 and a pre-installed 16GB NOOBS micro SD card and didn’t back it up before I used it because, annoyingly, the kit did not come with a micro SD adapter. | only installed Raspbian and OpenElec but I'm sure that | saw Ubuntu and a couple of other things that I haven't been able to find again. I then bought myself a 32GB micro SD card so that | had room to install more operating systems. | downloaded NOOBS and it seems to be working fine but | was only given the choice of Raspbian, OpenElec, OSMC and Windows IOT. How do you find other OS's and can you install Raspbian, OpenElec, Ubuntu and Chromium (for example) at the same time? Can you install an additional OS without overwriting the existing ones? I told you that | was a complete novice @ PiLover on June 14, 2016 at 4:53 arn Why is the a 2gb file and a 16gb file for download. Which one should | use? The file sizes represents how much room the space chromium allocate to Gus on August 27, 2016 at 6°56 am itself. For example installing the 2gb file on a 16gb card will leave you with 1.4gb free space, 600 mb for chromium and the 14gb will be wasted/inaccessible. They currently don't have a too! available to increase the size to the full size of the SD card. Reply Ihave tried and failed 5 times to get Chromium to boot, let alone run. I have no idea what | am doing wrong, followed instructions and still a no go. help! John Guy on July 18, 2016 at 1:04 pm Iitpsitpimyifup.comiraspoorry-pi-chromium? ww002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS John Guy on July 20, 2016 at 4:06 an | got it figured out. Turns out | had to unpack the archive file 2 times to get the image file | needed to set up this OS. After | did that things went nice and smooth!! Kevin on August 4, 2016 at 7:07 pm hi, Lask you something My computer said, ww. chromiunosforsbc.org is under construction. So, can you give me the file of ‘CHROMIUMRPI3 0.4 ‘Lenny Bruce’ Latest Version’ please? Gus on August 4, 2016 at 8:26 pm Hi Kevin, 1am not sure what has happened but it looks like they may have pulled the plug on the project. You can find all the downloads for chromiumsbe here mehmet ergene on August 10, 2016 at 4:46 pm black screen problem goes on? any fixes? John Guy on August 11, 2016 at 2:80 am I got a black screen when | was setting up Chromium up, turns out I did not, have the image file on my memory chip. Since there was no OS to boot the screen remained black. Check to be sure you have the image file. | had to unpack the archive 2 times to get the image file needed. Unpack once and Iitpsitpimyifup.comiraspoorry-pi-chromium? vm002017 Raspberry Pi Chromium: Learn How to install Chromium OS you get a ***** tar file, unpack the *****.tar file and you should get the img file you need to put on the memory chip. Reply Ihave a wave share 7 inch touchscreen how do | set this up correctly, it gives me a ghost image at the bottom Reply I would look at editing the config.txt file manually typically located in John jones on August 26, 2016 at 6:34 pm Gus on August 27, 2016 at 6:53 am Pboot/config. txt There are a ton of settings that you can set in here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md Lam not 100%sure how much of them are compatible with this image of chromium. Unfortunately the support seems to have stopped over at the chromiumforsbe subreddits and their website is now just display under construction. Jose Pedro on August 29, 2016 at 4:26 am Hi, | followed instructions for image 0.5 and 0.4 for raspberry 2 but car't get the image to boot ~ when | start the raspberry I only get the multicolor screen! Reply Ihave the same problem. | use an old tv with av output not hdmi. I don't know if this is the reason? 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