A while ago I had acquired a chromebook from my school as they were doing a cleanout, so I was able to nab this crappy school chromebook that had a detachable battery and a 5GB 2.5" internal SSD
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I wanted to try and install a new operating system on it, and since I was in my distrohopping phase I wanted to try installing Arch Linux on it, since I figure that would allow it to be actually usable rather than in it's chromeOS state
The main issue was that the current operating system had a lock on it that made it so that you as a student wouldn't be able to boot into a different operating system, either through installing a new OS on the current drive or through using a LiveCD.
So what I had to do was go INTO the currently installed operating system, toggle a setting, and then use a tool that would install <a href='https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/'>ChromeFlex</a>, which basically acted as an intermediary operating system so that I could unlock the actual firmware, letting me plug in a better drive
Now that I could put in my own drive and not have the device yell at me for not having a ChromeOS operating system I went ahead and installed Arch Linux on the drive and booted it up