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Questions tagged [chromeos]

Questions about ChromeOS, mainly about running it within Ubuntu.

ChromeOS is available for installation on Ubuntu, 12.04/12.10 (previous versions incompatible as of now).
It is a part of lightdm-chromeos-login project, by dz0ny, that installs the ChromiumOS desktop and its Aura window manager within Ubuntu. It even lets you login it to a full-blown Chrome desktop straight from the login screen.

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How to check if I'm using GRUB-EFI or GRUB-PC?

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 in a chroot on ChromeOS, which uses a UEFI system. In order to install WinUSB to create recovery media for Windows, I had to change grub-efi-amd64 to grub-pc. WinUSB performed this process for me. To my knowledge this would…
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How to uninstall chrome OS and install Ubuntu 16.04 fully (not Crouton) on a Chromebook

I want to uninstall Chrome OS and install Ubuntu instead. How would I do this?
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Does Ubuntu work on chromebooks?

Good day, I have a question, can I install Ubuntu on a Chromebook? And will audio, touchpad, usb4 work?
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How to write a Chromium OS *.img file to a USB drive?

I have downloaded a Chromium OS *.img file which I want to write to a USB drive, so that I can boot from it. Is there any tool like YUMI for windows? I tried usb-imagewriter and UNetbootin, but they don't work.
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Dual-booting Chrome OS and Ubuntu 13.04 on a PC

Is it possible to install Chrome OS and Ubuntu 13.04 on a x86 System (Core 2 Duo)?
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Is it possible to dual-boot chrome OS and Ubuntu?

I was wondering if I could dual-boot Ubuntu with Chrome OS and whether I need any special software/configuration to do so.
Khalizz Mohamed
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Replace ChromeOS with Ubuntu on Acer Chromebook 15 (cp315-1h-p8qy)

A colleague has asked for my help installing Ubuntu 19.10 onto her Acer Chromebook 15 (cp315-1h-p8qy). I haven't found a tutorial for removing ChromeOS from this specific model, but other tutorials (for different models) say you must remove a…
Lonnie Best
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ChromeOS not booting from USB install media

I am trying to boot Ubuntu from my Chromebook. It is a Lenovo Yoga C630. I have developer and debug mode turned on, with crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1 I also ran this from the Ctrl+Alt+F2 terminal: enable_dev_usb_boot I created my…
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Steam LAN "In-home steaming" not working on Chrome OS (via crouton)

I installed Ubuntu xenial on my Chromebook via crouton, and after navigating through "locales" problems not being able to run gnome-terminal, mounting problems on my sdcard, and video API problems, I managed to get it to work very well on my Asus…
Nick Bailuc
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Sound not working on HP Chromebook 11 G4 Ubuntu 16.04

I installed Seabios and then used a USB to install Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with no problems; I completely removed Chrome OS. I just realized while playing a game that the sound is not working. Do I need to install a driver or just make some adjustments…
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Using the ASH widow manager from Chrome OS

I was interested in using google chrome's ASH window manager on Ubuntu. I first tried dz0ny's lightdm-login-chromeos project, but that seems to have been abandoned. I then tried the google-chrome --open-ash commandwith the Chrome browser installed,…
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How do I install ChomiumOS and run it as a separate X ession?

I'm exploring different options on how to install ChromiumOS on my desktop (x86_64) PC which is currently running Ubuntu 14.10. I tried the following methods first: Dual booting the two, but resizing or configuring Chromium OS partitions is a pain…
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How to install Ubuntu 32-bit on Asus C300 chromebook

I have just purchased a chromebook, Asus C300, in hopes that I would be able to install ubuntu on it instead of chrome os. The other options I see are chrubuntu and crouton but neither really give me what I want as I don't have any need for chrome…
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How do I access Ubuntu on Acer Chromebook after installation?

I have installed Ubuntu in my chromebook but it only boots into chrome OS. My goal is to have my Chromebook booting into Ubuntu.
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Restore default boot OS to Chrome OS

I am having a problem with ChrUbuntu and setting the default OS back to Chrome OS. I have tried sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 0 -S 1 /dev/sda but all that returns is futility failed to exec /usr/bin/old_bins/cgpt: No such file or directory. How can I fix…
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