On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Monday 17 March 2014 10.16:49 Felmon Davis wrote:
>> greetings!
>>
>> for the interest of it I purchased an acer chromebook c720. I like
>> some aspects of it, especially the quick booting, but like some less
>> (the screen) or find disquieting (dependence on the 'cloud').
>>
>> I had trouble getting it to boot into Linux (other than chromeos of
>> course) but finally got Bodhi and Linux Mint to run. the trick was to
>> set the kernel parameter for memory.
> (...)
>
> Hello,
>
> May ask what you mean with "set the kernel parameter for memory"? I suppose
> you mean setting parameters at the grub level?

indeed.

the acer c720 has 2gb ram. I don't know what the best setting is but I 
put something like 'mem=1g' on the grub line and obviously can bump it 
up much further but right now I'm having too much fun playing.

installing an ssd card entails breaking the warranty seal; may do so 
anyway. or just proceed to installing on the present card.

the trick will be, I think, getting the touchpad to work. I abhor 
touchpads but still want it to work. also there are only two usb 
ports.

have misgivings about this machine but it makes a great fiddle for 
now.

F.

-- 
Felmon Davis

Success makes a fool seem wise.  -- Mapletoft