| Google Cr-48 Running Ubuntu 11.04 (and Unity)
Description This is a screencast (taken with my Motorola Flipside phone) of my Google Cr-48 laptop computer running Ubuntu 11.04 (between Alpha 3 and Beta 1) and Unity 3.6.8 (the Compiz-based version). Keywords | Search Share Social Bookmark          Related Media
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No, you don't have to flash the BIOS to use Ubuntu the way I am. There are instructions to dual-boot Ubuntu and Chrome OS without even opening the case:
http://www.chromeoslounge.com/cr-48-...u-cr-48-a.html
Click the first link in that post, and you'll get to a blog entry showing how to do it. It involves getting to a virtual terminal, running bash, running a shell script, rebooting, and running the same script again.
To upgrade the resulting 10.10 installation to 11.04:
http://www.chromeoslounge.com/13542-post.html
Now, you're all set.
three questions
1. do you have to flash the bios to do this
2. some instructions tell you to open the case. is this needed to do this
3. is it possible to go back to chrome os