Upgrade Linux Kernel on Chromebook

So after installing ChrUbuntu on my Acer C7 Chromebook, I’m very pleased that with the help of this blog I was able to upgrade the Linux Kernel to 3.8.11 raravena@chromebook:~/git/blog-src$ uname -a Linux chromebook 3.8.11 #3 SMP Thu Oct 17 07:41:20 PDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux These are the modified steps: #!/bin/bash set -x # # Grab verified boot utilities from ChromeOS. # mkdir -p /usr/share/vboot mount -o ro /dev/sda3 /mnt cp /mnt/usr/bin/vbutil_* /usr/bin mkdir -p /usr/bin/old_bins cp /mnt/usr/bin/old_bins/vbutil_* /usr/bin/old_bins/. [Read More]