My Girlfriend got a chromebook from school recently but she doesn’t use it much, so I’m trying to put Linux on it. And no, we don’t have to return the chromebook, so don’t worry about that. It is an HP Chromebook 14 G7.
I was following the guide on Mr.Chromebox.tech. I don’t trust myself to open the computer and get a solid connection for the jumper, so I went with try to do CCD. I go along with the guide, I sign in as root, use gsctool and hit the power button when needed. Here’s where problems start.
Instead of the computer restarting like guide says, it just… goes into a perpetual state of booting, I guess?
- The power button does nothing
- The screen never turns on
- The power LED slowly blinks white occassionally (Definitely not shipping mode)
- The battery gets really warm and stays that way
The only way I’m able to get the computer to turn back on at all is by doing a factory reset by holding Esc+Refresh+Power. This also reverts the CCD activation. When I verify the state with gsctool -a -I, it just says the state is “locked”. I don’t know if this is the same as it being “closed”, so pardon if I’m mistaken.
If anyone knows whats going on I would greatly appriciate it.