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

[William Park]

I get screen with message

    OS verification is OFF
    Press SPACE to re-enable.

>From online articles, I'm supposed to press Ctrl-U or Ctrl-L here, but
it just beeps.  For this HP Chromebook, it doesn't hang.  I eventually
get Chrome login screen.
-- 
William

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:28:34PM -0400, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> 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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