[starfire-1]

Matt and company,

I just received my Celeron based chromebox and wanted to just wade into the pool before diving in. I updated the Legacy SeaBIOS with the most recent version and can indeed boot live versions of Ubuntu and Fedora from a USB stick and from a virtual CD (Zalman HD case).

However, when I install a distribution to an external hard drive (standard partitions, MBR format, boot loader installed to MBR) and select the device from SeaBIOS, it complains that it cannot read the boot device and fails.

What is the subtle difference that allows me to boot a live distro USB but not an installed version? Is it the grub bootloader?

I'd like to dual boot my box, but leave the ChromeOS largely in tact and run a Linux distro from the external hard drive. Any ideas? Thanks!