Adventures in chromebookland

Chromebooks are interesting if you need a low budget computer. They are even nicer if you can run Linux or another operation system on it. I tried this on an older one that was still around in the house.

Supposedly there are two ways of running Linux on your Chromebook.

run inside of ChomeOS, or inside a container actually
flash the firmware and install an UEFI bios, and roll your own distro

More info here

So, I would like to run Ubuntu Linux.

For this I had to disable the write protection on the firmware. This has to be done by removing the battery feed from the motherboard.

Here we go: Battery removed

It worked! I could flash the firmware with this tool.

After that, I could change the boot order and boot the Ubuntu installer from USB.

And the result: Running ubuntu