How to enable Developer Mode?

[Christian Ereira]

I'm running the latest build of vanilla on my windows 7 compaq netbook. (booting from USB). I really need to enable developer mode and since this is not a chromebook, I do not have the switch under the battery. I was hoping that there would be a way to enable it from the shell, but can't find any way. Anyone here know how?

[Richard Barnette]

On Apr 25, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Christian Ereira <christi...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm running the latest build of vanilla on my windows 7 compaq netbook. (booting from USB). I really need to enable developer mode and since this is not a chromebook, I do not have the switch under the battery. I was hoping that there would be a way to enable it from the shell, but can't find any way. Anyone here know how?
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Developer mode is specific to Chromebook hardware. For features
that depend on developer mode, non-chrome hardware should behave
as if developer mode were already enabled; you shouldn't need to do
anything to your system.

Have you encountered a problem that makes you think you need
developer mode?

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[Christian Ereira]

The reason I need developer mode on is that I have accidently managed to install chromium to the drive windows was on and now it's wiped windows and completely messed up my netbook :/ I decided as I now have no way of getting windows back, to install Ubuntu. I found a site that supplied the code but when I have saved the code and try to run it with sudo bash [name it was saved under] it said that I need to enable developer mode. Unfortunately, I have no idea on how to do this!

[clayton hawthorne]

any luck? Im in the same boat as you, hopefully, were.

[Christian Ereira]

Yes! I managed to fix my netbook, but unfortunatly it is no longer windows but instead Ubuntu. This is alright for me becuase to be honest I much prefer Ubuntu. To fix your netbook, you need to image your USB with the Ubuntu(or a windows if you can find one that works) image and boot from that the same way you did when installing chromium. That's it! If you need further help, do a simple google search for installing Ubuntu on USB and it should return a ton of results!

Hope this helped!

[matthew...@hotmail.com]

On Friday, May 10, 2013 1:44:41 AM UTC-5, Christian Ereira wrote:

Yes! I managed to fix my netbook, but unfortunatly it is no longer windows but instead Ubuntu. This is alright for me becuase to be honest I much prefer Ubuntu. To fix your netbook, you need to image your USB with the Ubuntu(or a windows if you can find one that works) image and boot from that the same way you did when installing chromium. That's it! If you need further help, do a simple google search for installing Ubuntu on USB and it should return a ton of results!

Hope this helped!

how did you manage to install ubuntu (I'm literally in the same boat your were in not too long ago) I haven't had any luck locating a way into Developer Mode on my Acer Aspire One netbook and every image installed onto a USB drive is completely ignored during the reboot process...if I'd know that Chromium was this invasive and erase all traces of any previously installed OS while loading it onto my netbook, I'd have never done it in the first place.

Any suggestions you can provide would be a blessing at this point as my 'chromebook' is now useless without a fully functioning operating system... 

 

[Christian Ereira]

You can download the .iso file from http://www.ubuntu.com. Burn that to a blank USB drive and put it in your laptop. Make sure that the boot settings are set to check USB drives FIRST! Ubuntu should start the installer! Hope this helps!