Re: Chromebooks as Linux laptops?

Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> writes:

So out of interest, is anyone on the list running a standard Linux distro on a Chromebook (of any type) at present?

Either using something like Crouton to run it side-by-side or as a native install?

I'm running Debian jessie on an Acer C720. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/c720-ubuntu/ I didn't bother to keep cros anywhere, because it wants like 14 separate partitions. I put a 256GB M.2 in a second C720, and that completely failed. After a few writes, the disk just disconnects until you hard reboot. So that was joy. I also flashed a newer coreboot firmware onto the second one, and that part worked fine. That also includes a 2MB chainloader called "jeltka".