[sf-lug] Big progress on launchpad's bug number one

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):

>    Akkana wrote:
> 
> At least, most of the
> x86 Chromebooks have firmware that can only boot specific signed
> kernels. You can install another distro, either instead of ChromeOS
> or in a separate partition as a dual-boot; but it has to be a distro
> that's capable of running with Google's signed ChromeOS kernels.

Yes, it's called developer mode, and is selected via a toggle switch.
https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-new-in-dev-and-beta/developer-mode

It's not even a 'hack' in the sense of needing to engineer a way to
break in, but rather something deliberately built in.