[riprowan]

This is maybe an OT reply, but crouton / dualboot still brings up the scare-screen on boot. Which is fine if you're a dev.

Not so good when you hand the computer to your brother-in-law to check out a web page, he opens it up

OS VERIFICATION OFF PRESS SPACE TO RE-ENABLE

and of course presses space and wipes your whole environment :(

Yes this was me :(

[witty_username]

So, enabling OS verification wipes the data on the Chromebook or what?

[msh]

Yes, it detects that the OS have been tampered with when you have dual boot or use crouton and nukes the disc with a clean install.

[milankragujevic]

Yes, every time you enable or disable OS verification the whole eMMC flash memory is deleted.