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+--- Thread: Cant login to a new install of ChromeOS (/showthread.php?tid=12086)
Cant login to a new install of ChromeOS - flatulent_piney - 11-09-2020
When I got my pbp back in August/Sept I tried the newest version of ayufan's chromeos build and poked around a little before moving on to other distros. I recently had a reason to go back to chromeos and cannot login. I have reflashed the sd card with 3 different version of chromeos and get messages about my account not being verified, but I can still sogn in as a guest and access gmail and such from inside the guest browser.
Doing web searches on this this problem reveals that it isnt exactly uncommon, but that a "powerwash" is the key to resetting a regular chromebook and fixing the issue. The key combos for powerwashing do not work however (prompts restart but never prompts to begin powerwash), and there really shouldnt be a need to powerwash a freshly installed sd card anyway right?
My best guess is that there is some sort of leftovers from the first chromeos sdcard that I poked around with somewhere/somehow on the actual pbp and google isnt allowing sign-in. I am using a different sd card, and have tried the same on also, and as I said befiore I have tried 3 different of ayufan's build. None will let me sign in as anything other than guest. Any thoughts and help are appreciated. Ty
RE: Cant login to a new install of ChromeOS - flatulent_piney - 11-10-2020
Based on the guess of "leftovers from the first chromeos sdcard" , I decided to hit the switch (disable) on the EMMC and got signed in without issue. I re-enabled the EMMC and can still sign in.
Id still like someone who knows a bit more about what may have been happening if possible. "Leftovers" may have been the right answer but is still a pretty thin guess that was just lucky to be correct