Can this be used for ubuntu USB drive installations? about pixelbook-linux

[flantel]

Looking at the Ansible code I don't see why not. I will give that a shot first, creating the usb drive and running this ansible install on a totally separate machine, then see how it works. I'll report back.

[flantel]

Sorry, I went ahead and installed directly. Seeing as I had to switch to Dev mode anyway I decided to go the whole hog.
Impressed!

[yusefnapora]

Sorry I haven't had time to respond earlier @nrmnrm - I think it should be safe, but if you look at #3 it seems that someone using a dual-boot setup hit a snag with extracting the recovery files. I'm not sure whether that would affect a USB install, but it seems like it might.

If you give it a shot, let me know how it works out - I might have some time this weekend to play with it also, since booting from USB is a bit easier for me to test than the dual-boot setup in the other issue.

[nrmnrm]

So I dared to run the script, getting slightly different results with my usb stick install than #3

Mine is:
TASK [eve-recovery-files : Find mapper device to use for mounting image] ***********************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({{ kpartx_output.stdout | regex_search(regexp, '\\1') | first }}): 'NoneType' object is not iterable"}
to retry, use: --limit @/home/nrm/improve-ubuntu/pixelbook-linux/ansible/playbook.retry

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=9 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=1

Any ideas?

[nrmnrm]

happy to report back the fix suggested here:
#4
makes everything work already.
only issue left: screen is rotated in the beginning, guess this is because of tablet mode?!
needed to execute xrandr -o normal

this is perfect work, screen dimming and sound working out of the box!

[flantel]

@nrmnrm so are you running this off USB successfully now?

[nrmnrm]

yes, works really well. Still wondering why login screen is rotating, guess i have to check iio-sensor-proxy

[nrmnrm]

I just had to deactivate rotating in login and regular screen (using ubuntu on-board tools in top right menu), now everything is just great!