2015 Chromebook Pixel

Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by gknoy on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @04:47PM (#9187107)

My biggest worry is the ease with which one can accidentally wipe out everything and reset it to factory settings every time you boot up. I might be super careful, but all I need is for my four or seven year old to turn it on wrong, and suddenly I fear I'd have a several hour fix-it session.

If it came with a setting that would let me make changes more permanent (e.g., a BIOS setting), I'd want one in a heartbeat.

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Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by mikeflynn on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:06PM (#9188070)

This.

My wife accidentally wiped my fully configured Crouton Ubuntu install off the drive when I was first playing with my Gen 1 Pixel. I chatted with a few Google Chrome OS devs right after this happened and managed to convince one that some sort of a setting, even if it's super obscure, would be a good idea, but apparently nothing ever came of it.

Crouton has come along way since then and you can back your chroot off to an SD card now, but it's still a pain point for sure.

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Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by fragmede on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @05:49PM (#9187621)

That 'setting' exists in the form of opening it up, unscrewing a screw to enable flashing, and then flashing the BIOS.

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Re:2015 Chromebook Pixel by nfoz on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @11:16PM (#9189043)

Sounds like that would void the warranty? I've never had to do something like that to install Linux on a laptop before.

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