Samsung Chromebook XE303C12

First generation chromebook from Samsung in 2012.

Cannot boot from the USB 3.0 port (blue) - USB boot is only available from the 2.0 port.
Press CTRL + U to boot from USB or CTRL + D to boot from internal disk
low beep indicates that the machine cannot find a bootable image on the USB drive
Check that you have run sudo crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_signed_only=0 - the signed image flag is important and making sure it is low (set to 0) is key.

After a Flat Battery

The crossystem values go back to default so you have to redo the steps above to enable dev boot and disabled signed boot.

ArchLinux ARM

See Samsung Chromebook

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Created 2026-03-18 15:29:42 UTC by James
Updated 2026-05-21 13:12:41 UTC by James