(2014-03-18, 13:32)noggin Wrote: (2014-03-18, 10:17)MrLondon Wrote: noggin, have you found a way to avoid the Ctrl+L during boot?
I haven't tried this - as I find the CTRL+L and CTRL+D switch quite useful (I triple-boot ChromeOS (CTRL+D) and Ubuntu (CTRL+L with no external USB stick) from the internal SSD and OpenElec (CTRL+L with external USB stick) from an external USB3 stick) - however these details suggest it is possible : http://johnlewis.ie/how-to-make-seabios-...acer-c720/
If it's worth anything, I've done the same steps that noggin had linked to, and I find that it works well. It's worth to note (on the Acer C720 Chromebook), that in order to unlock the write protect on the firmware(to change the default boot), that you need to remove the bottom cover in order to remove the 'write protect screw' - depicted in the bottom of the following reference link - no big deal for me, as I had to remove the bottom cover to replace the SSD with a 128GB):
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/deve...chromebook
Note, that I haven't yet seen how the Asus Chromebox write protect is enabled. However given how similar the hardware is to my Aser C720, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it used the same screw method.
...it looks like Amazon didn't keep their promise on a Tuesday 18th delivery for my pre-ordered Chromebox. Evidently they didn't have enough stock to readily fulfill all the pre-orders.
When you run the script to update the firmware with the new settings, an option can be applied to lower the Dev splash screen to a 1 second during which, a person could still press CTRL-D to boot to chromeOS, otherwise, it'll boot the legacy SeaBios -> Grub -> Linux automatically.
I was initially concerned that 1 second on the Dev splash screen would be too short, however I find that it's fine - if you are ready for it to intentionally boot ChromeOS, it's plenty of time to press the keys.
Regards,
Jake