Hi,
I'm struggling with Kali on Asus C201PA chromebook, when installed and booted from an SD card (128GB). Essentially everything seems to be working fine, including wifi, but once I try to use all space on the SD card (add another partition), it gets unbootable :-(
Initially, the disk layout (of the SD card) looks like this:
I'm not a GPT expert, but following the various tutorials I do this:Code:root@kali:~# cgpt show -d /dev/mmcblk1 start size part contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header Sig: [EFI PART] Rev: 0x00010000 Size: 92 Header CRC: 0x6850405e My LBA: 1 Alternate LBA: 14335999 First LBA: 34 Last LBA: 14335966 Disk UUID: FDE085FB-90B4-1840-A7EE-5F7190417010 Entries LBA: 2 Number of entries: 128 Size of entry: 128 Entries CRC: 0x90fd8609 2 32 Pri GPT table 8192 32768 1 Label: "kernel" Type: ChromeOS kernel UUID: 47D2424D-92CD-8E46-906D-E7D1CD097AB2 Attr: priority=10 tries=5 successful=1 40960 14295007 2 Label: "Root" Type: Linux data UUID: 1C0BF3F9-081D-FA46-952B-88FA53349DE4 243269599 32 Sec GPT table 8192 32768 1 Label: "kernel" Type: ChromeOS kernel UUID: 47D2424D-92CD-8E46-906D-E7D1CD097AB2 Attr: priority=10 tries=5 successful=1 40960 14295007 2 Label: "Root" Type: Linux data UUID: 1C0BF3F9-081D-FA46-952B-88FA53349DE4 243269631 1 Sec GPT header Sig: [EFI PART] Rev: 0x00010000 Size: 92 Header CRC: 0x41551530 My LBA: 243269631 Alternate LBA: 1 First LBA: 34 Last LBA: 14335966 Disk UUID: FDE085FB-90B4-1840-A7EE-5F7190417010 Entries LBA: 243269599 Number of entries: 128 Size of entry: 128 Entries CRC: 0x90fd8609
At this point, the SD card is unbootable, i.e. if I try to reboot the chromebook, it will refuse to boot from it (using the Ctrl-U). The GPT looks like this:Code:root@kali:~# parted /dev/mmcblk1 GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/mmcblk1 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/mmcblk1 appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 228933632 blocks) or continue with the current setting? Fix/Ignore? Fix Model: SD SD128 (sd/mmc) Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 125GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 4194kB 21.0MB 16.8MB kernel 2 21.0MB 7340MB 7319MB ext4 Root msftdata (parted) q
I've tried to fix this using 'gpt repair' but that does not change a thing :-(Code:root@kali:~# cgpt show -d /dev/mmcblk1 start size part contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header Sig: [EFI PART] Rev: 0x00010000 Size: 92 Header CRC: 0xc87dd7d7 My LBA: 1 Alternate LBA: 243269631 First LBA: 34 Last LBA: 243269598 Disk UUID: FDE085FB-90B4-1840-A7EE-5F7190417010 Entries LBA: 2 Number of entries: 128 Size of entry: 128 Entries CRC: 0xab1299a2 2 32 Pri GPT table 8192 32768 1 Label: "kernel" Type: ChromeOS kernel UUID: 47D2424D-92CD-8E46-906D-E7D1CD097AB2 Attr: priority=0 tries=0 successful=0 40960 14295007 2 Label: "Root" Type: Linux data UUID: 1C0BF3F9-081D-FA46-952B-88FA53349DE4 243269599 32 Sec GPT table 8192 32768 1 Label: "kernel" Type: ChromeOS kernel UUID: 47D2424D-92CD-8E46-906D-E7D1CD097AB2 Attr: priority=0 tries=0 successful=0 40960 14295007 2 Label: "Root" Type: Linux data UUID: 1C0BF3F9-081D-FA46-952B-88FA53349DE4 243269631 1 Sec GPT header Sig: [EFI PART] Rev: 0x00010000 Size: 92 Header CRC: 0xa6577a55 My LBA: 243269631 Alternate LBA: 1 First LBA: 34 Last LBA: 243269598 Disk UUID: FDE085FB-90B4-1840-A7EE-5F7190417010 Entries LBA: 243269599 Number of entries: 128 Size of entry: 128 Entries CRC: 0xab1299a2
