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Description: When installing to HDD error comes up
cros-disks stop/waiting error: attempt to install to a removeable device /dev/sdb
The “removeable” device is a 320GB Seagate WD3200BUCT laptop drive connected to SATA.
Tried this more than once and have given up. Nothing can be that stupid.
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It is enabled. My motherboard has 6 hot swap bays. 1&2 for DVD/main system drive. 3&4 spare 3.5" bays. 5&6 spare 2.5" bays. The ST drive is in bay 5 so it may be a “laptop” drive but it can run quite happily in a tower. If AHCI was not enabled my main system would not work. And to be safe I disconnected main system drive to stop any accidents.
So why does this crappy Fydeos think it is a “removeable” device when it is SATA attached to the motherboard and NOT USB.
Probably because every attempt to download the chromeos recovery utility stalls on every one of five different systems (linux/windows/mac) when you press “get started”.
About the level of reliability chrome seems to enjoy.
Don’t worry. Chances I will ever use Chromewhatever is now zero. Windows is more reliable!!!
Actually you hit on the solution. I took the hdd out of the desktop and put it in the laptop and it installed!!!
Naturally it was a stupid system. On the laptop the installer saw it as sda whereas on the desktop it came up as sdb for some reason even though the primary drive was disconnected. So Fydeos is only good for a machine with one hdd fitted otherwise it thinks any other drive is removeable. Not a particularly good design.
As for Chromium I downloaded it and made an installer that would not even find the networks on the desktop. On the laptop it found all the local networks and asked for the wifi password. BUT it then tried to sign in to “your chromebook” without success - probably because the system was not actually installed and still running from installer. Had to make do with guest mode and that showed it was connected to my local network. However, there was no means of actually installing the system to the hdd so I was left with another stupid system failing to get to my login because it was trying to run a system that was not installed, or it was trying to use the restricted guest login which could not connect.
When you label a person as stupid, even obliquely, you remind me of a lesson I was taught many years ago. Give someone good service he might tell a friend. Give him bad service he will tell the world. All I can say to Hacker is never try to get a job as an ambassador - you will start a world war in 5 minutes flat.
Substitute newby experience with Chromeos for service and you see the negative vibes from your comments. Experience now makes me see Chromeos for what it is - a toy system. If it cannot work on desktops it cannot be up to much. Fydeos did not work well on the laptop as it is 16 years old and with a single core Celeron. It runs Win 7 & 8 perfectly well and Linux Mint like a dream but the installed version got as far as the language/keyboard selection then it sat still for 20 mins and did nothing. Obviously Chrome is too powerful for something that runs Win 8 ???
So good luck with your toy system.
By the way, I do not know how you got to the AHCI mode response as it was not in my initial post - looks like an image from a completely different person, so be careful what you say and to whom.
Well blow me. Took laptop drive with working Fydeos and put it in desktop and behold - it now works - that removeable-drive-which-could-not-accept-installation is now functioning and /deb/sdb no longer applies.
Having reviewed the system and app offerings only one word will suffice - UNDERWHELMING.
Less apps supplied than Windows 3 and a store full of what looks like kiddies stuff rather than serious programs.
The hype is more over the moon than the cow,
I can now wipe the drive and use it for something productive.
No need. Chromeos is so good it seems it is being dumped in favour of Android which is older but still a toy system. When one is used to multiple desktops - and not the pathetic Windows/Mac versions - then Android is a little baby. Its about fit for single use tasks and only the largest tablets could hope to manage tabbed browsing. Carry on and enjoy your toy while it exists.
Google is no different to any other large organisation that thinks it is God. Eventually the devil chops off its legs. DOJ is only the beginning.
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