Yeah, a couple of times, the easiest way is to run it along side Chrome OS with crouton. Although, if you have a Chromebook with an Intel (or AMD? - not sure on this) CPU, you can use Mr. Chromebox’s scripts to install a full UEFI.
GitHub - dnschneid/crouton: Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment (EOL)
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