[GTALUG] question -- booting from USB on Chromebook ?

Tue Oct 13 02:28:34 UTC 2015

On my Acer Chromebook C720 early in the boot when SeaBIOS detects a USB
stick I need to hit ESC to bring up a menu listing the internal storage and
USB stick and make my selection to continue. Otherwise the Chromebook will
hang indefinitely.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:15 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Canada Computers has "HP Chromebook 11 G3" on sale for $199.  So, I bought
> one.
> The keyboard is better than other chromebooks or laptops at this price
> range.
>
> I have done the following successfully:
>     - enabled Developer mode
>     - installed Crouton script and "Crouton Integration" extension for
>       Chrome browser.
>     - installed Ubuntu (trusty, 14.04.xx, XFCE)
> So, I have ChromeOS and Xubuntu running at the same time.
>
> Now, booting from USB/SD is what I really want.  This way, I can keep
> the Chromebook "clean" by having all Linux stuffs on USB stick.  But,
> for the life of me, I can't get it to boot from USB stick.
>
> I did
>     - crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1
>
> What else do I have to do?
> Has anyone here successfully booted from USB on Chromebook?  Help...
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