While I'm currently not a huge fan of Chrome OS or Chromebooks in general since they are rather limited in their functionality, I still wanted to give it a try. Maybe it proves me wrong and became very good? So here's a short guide on how I built a bootable Chromium OS USB-Stick. A lot of this is mentioned on the official chromium os page. I'm using an ubuntu 16.04 to build it which is also the recommended version from the chromium project. Note that I installed this machine just for this purpose. First, you'll need to install some basic stuff: [archy@buildbot ~]$ sudo apt-get -y install git-core gitk git-gui subversion curl lvm2 thin-provisioning-tools python-pkg-resources python-virtualenv python-oauth2client vim Next up, Google has written some wrappers for git which, they say, is required to build it. So you'll need to git clone them locally and set the path variable to include them. [archy@buildbot ~]$ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com