switching back to ubuntu from chrome os problems

Question

im using a HP chromebook 14 and i just finished installing ubuntu on it. it booted up and i was able to switch back and forth between chrome os and ubuntu. i restarted my laptop and it booted back up to chrome os in developer mode and the terminal opened up by it self. i tried to switch to ubuntu with ctrl+alt+forward arrow ctrl+alt+refresh but that didnt work. then i tried to start it through terminal and this is what happened

crosh> shell

chronos@localhost / $ sudo startunity

Entering /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/precise...

/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: 19: exec: /usr/bin/X: not found
/usr/bin/xinit: giving up
/usr/bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/xinit: server error
Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/precise...

id appreciate any help or tips you guys can give me

Answer 1

i was just in the same predicament that you're in i promised myself (sort of) that if I were to figure this out myself i'll help the rest with this issue, and I FIGURED IT OUT!! All you have to do is update your chroot or crouton with the following command line within the chrome os terminal: sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -n -u being the name of your chroot (precise, trusty, etc.). based on your error, your chroot name is "precise" so you'll input that as the following command line: sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -n precise -u if you get some kind of error then it's mainly because you more than likely deleted your crouton file. redownload that file here http://goo.gl/fd3zc if you did. then go back to the whole update crouton deal i just told you about.

Answer 2

I recommend following my answer and removing ChromeOS completely. If you still want to use Chrome, you can make a live USB using Neverware's (this is the home page) CloudReadyOS (this is the download page). It's based heavily on ChromeOS and will function much the same way as well as be as light as fast as Chrome.