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> crouton Correct me if I'm wrong but is this not the hack where every time you boot your system it tells you to press a key to reset it and if you press that
by intoverflow2 10y ago
> crouton
Correct me if I'm wrong but is this not the hack where every time you boot your system it tells you to press a key to reset it and if you press that key it instantly blanks the partition.
This seem absurd even for an expert user to use full time let alone school kids.
- carussell 10y agoThat's not crouton. That comes from Google's coreboot-derived firmware. See https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/2014-firmware-summit https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/2014-firmware-summit It's true, though, that the whole process needs to be made more straightforward and easily circumventable. It's just not a part of crouton.
- intoverflow2 10y agoOk but one press of space during boot on this scary looking screen [1] and the whole system will need to be reinstalled and all data on the linux partition will be lost correct? Just finding it ridiculous that HN users suggest this with a straight face every time we have this discussion. [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/os-verification-is-off.jpg https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/os-veri...
- carussell 10y agoYes. It's stupid and is worse than it needs to be. See my last paragraph. I don't know what else I can say.