Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Revert to "secure mode" on Chromebook with Linux installed on internal "SSD"

In case you have installed Linux on internal "SSD", every time you start the Chromebook, you will get:

"Chrome OS verification is turned off"

Because nobody explained what will happen if you press space at this point, I decided to try it.

When you press space bar, the Chromebook ask you for second confirmation, then restarts in "normal" mode.

Then because there is no valid OS, it will not boot and you should restore ChromeOS from SD card or USB flash. During this restore, the data on internal SSD will be deleted.

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