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ading2210 / shimboot

Boot a desktop Linux distribution from a Chrome OS RMA shim.
https://shimboot.ading.dev
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GLITCH PLEASE HELP #165

Open FlappyChiken opened 1 week ago

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

A BOUGHT A TERABYTE SANDISK HARDDRIVE, AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY FOR 1 WEEK UNTIL I DOWNLOADED MATE AND LXDE IN A SESSION. I log out, and get to the log in screen, WHEN I LOG IN IT TURNS BLACK AND TAKES ME TO "CONFIRM RETURNING TO SECURE MODE"

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Log into a fresh session
  2. Download multiple desktop environments
  3. Log out
  4. Log in
  5. Feel Pain

Expected behavior TO BE ABLE TO LOG INTO ANY OF THE ENVIRMENTS

Target Chrome OS Device (please complete the following information):

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

PLEASE HELP

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

I LOST 1 TERABYTE

ading2210 commented 1 week ago

Can you give more details? What happens after a reboot? And are you sure that the drive is genuine?

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

I enter in to the log in screen

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

log in

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

and it sends me back to the developer mode screen

funkymokey commented 1 week ago

and it sends me back to the developer mode screen

You probably have a bad USB stick

FlappyChiken commented 1 week ago

I paid fifty dollars for a sanddisk hardrive and it worked for 2 weeks

Zzza38 commented 1 week ago

I paid fifty dollars for a sanddisk hardrive and it worked for 2 weeks

A real Sandisk 1 terabyte USB drive costs around 80-100$.

funkymokey commented 1 week ago

Well to be fair, many manufacturers don't recommend SanDisk USB drives as your go to recovery media because of their common corruption. Although I personally haven't experienced anything wrong yet, he might've been the victim.