Hi. I installed Ubuntu, and the OS was working fine on my Chromebook. While finishing the Ubuntu installation, I got the recovery screen with an exclamation mark. I pressed Ctrl + L to boot from the disk to use ubuntu. After closing my Chromebook and reopening it, I noticed it was restarting infinitely.
I attempted Ctrl + L, but it didn’t work. The screen kept opening and closing, and the light near the USB-C port was like: open, close, open close… Like the screen. I then tried Esc + Refresh + Power, and the Chromebook displayed a message asking to insert a recovery USB stick or SD card.
I used the ChromeOS recovery utility to flash ChromeOS back onto the device. After the process, my Chromebook indicated that ChromeOS was successfully installed. However, upon restarting, I still encountered the same problem.
Returning to the recovery USB/SD menu, I pressed Ctrl + i, and here is the information I received:
While I’m not strongly familiar with RW_Legacy, it sounds like if you’re trying to go back to full stock, I believe you need to undo the flags set by the script, as it looks like it tells the chromebook to boot into legacy mode by default.
Also, it sounds like according to MrChromebox’s site you need to be hitting ctrl + D to be booting into chromeos, not ctrl + L.
@theplug09 In the future, please do not make and delete posts complaining about no response, and also don’t add things like “PLEASE HELP ME RIGHT NOW” to the post title. It is spam.
If you would give around five minutes to read the documentation, you would notice a tip on page Booting the Recovery USB | Chrultrabook Docs - which says that you need to disable write protection once again, so the firmware can be updated while recovery process is running.
Also, please stop spamming in the unrelated topics.
let me explain, when the installation of ChromeOS was done, it said : installed with success or something like that. But still the same problem! it restart restart and restart! Like nothing on the screen, just a screen black, and it close. My chromebook can do it for hours! I read the doc, that what i do! i cant even switch to secure mode.
Also, i was checking for a Suzy-Q debug cable, but the production is discontinued. (i even check ebay, but nothing!). I was checking for a usb programmer too, but i cant because my chromebook is 2019.
Im very desperate, my mom pay 300$ for this Chromebook, she buy it for my school, game n shit.
how can i get a hardware issue by just making ubuntu into sleep mode? Ubuntu was working fine until i close my chromebook without completely shutting down it
No, it doesn’t help, because you’re trying to recover ChromeOS, which has nothing to do with booting Ubuntu using Ctrl+L.
If the recovery process is seemingly successful but in reality you cannot boot ChromeOS, like Ethan said, it sounds like a hardware issue, maybe a problem with the eMMC.
It may help if you explain what exactly you are doing on startup to boot ChromeOS.
