HOWTO: Install Xubuntu on HP Chromebook 14

[rob125]

You can change some of the flags in the HP Chromebook 14 seabios using the gbb utility. This enables default boot in legacy mode and a minimal time at the chromeos white screen.
See the links here:
http://johnlewis.ie/how-to-make-seab...our-acer-c720/
and end of page here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_Chromebook_14

Also someone complains about a long boot time and usb something something error messages. A little googling suggests this is a misleading message and can be fixed by addressing the suspend (UEFI) issue like so: ( from http://realityequation.net/installin...-chromebook-14 among other places). Sorry, I lost my main sources for this error rebooting trying to address the issue.

1. Edit /etc/default/grub, comment out the line withGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add this instead:
   
   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash add_efi_memmap boot=local noresume noswap i915.modeset=1 tpm_tis.force=1 tpm_tis.interrupts=0 nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic"

Hope this helps. I know your post is a little old at this point.

[vk2gpz]

Thanks so much

[dannidrengen]

I have problems in step 4. When i press ctrl+L i only get some bib sounds and nothing else happens. what to do?

[drkPu1se]

I know I'm reviving an old thread, but I'd like to make a pointer. When I updated after this worked for me (several weeks actually) I believe a kernel update kind of broke my trackpad. What I personally did was just follow Step 5 again and it worked. That's all. Oh and it's worth noting that for me changing how the script gets the kernel source didn't seem to work for me particularly, so I left it how it came in the script and it worked completely flawlessly for me.