"Rooting or jailbreaking lets you get full access of your device. Rooting most of the devices is not easy and takes quite an effort before you can get root access. However rooting or jailbreaking the GoogleChrome Notebook is as easy as pushing a button! "
This is a very clear article describing what it takes to jailbreak a CR-48. Locating the black tape is the most difficult part, so the photos are a big help. (The comments folks leave on these jailbreaking articles are a crack up. Lots of people swear the switch is not there--it's under black tape on a black laptop!)
A couple of things of note. This process will wipe your local data. So if you haven't shaved, are hung over, or have your hair in curlers, etc. note you will lose your original attractive photo--it will ask you for a new photo and you have to set up starting over again. (My photo is now with bed hair and in a bathrobe.) Second, the switch takes 15 minutes, so don't try it if you have no battery time left without plugging it in.
(Remember, the whole concept is to get away from the idea of local data.)
Once you are in jailbreak mode, other then the nag screen that you have to hit Ctrl-D to bypass, your Chrome browser will work as before.
The limited ChromeOS shell, can be accessed using Ctrl-Alt-T as before. You can alternate between the shell and the Chrome browser as before by using Alt-Tab. (If you have multiple shells open this will also work. I've loaded over 20 or thirty shells at the same time.)
However, now you can go to a bash shell within the ChromeOS shell by typing "shell" (Ctrl-D or "exit" once takes you back). You can also get to a Bourne shell by typing "sh" within the bash shell.
Yes. This is an official feature. See the related article at chromestory:
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