[Bug 1530530] Re: Installer doesn't show up on some Chromebook

[Timo Jyrinki]

There is no 3:2 resolution on normal chromebooks, just normal
resolutions. It's more due to the video BIOS missing / being strange
when using the SeaBIOS payload beneath chromebook's Coreboot from what I
can understand, and gfxboot not coping with it.

I believe 16.04 would work just as well if unetbootin would work for
16.04 images, ie removing gfxboot completely and replacing it with other
first menu showing code.

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Title:
  Installer doesn't show up on some Chromebook

Status in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I downloaded Ubuntu Wily 15.10, then copied into an USB drive in order to use that to install Ubuntu on my Chromebook Pixel 2.
  After selecting the drive to boot from, I only get a terminal that shows up the following lines:

  graphics initialization failed
  Error setting up gfxboot
  boot:

  Same happens with any *buntu ISO image ( I tried KDE and XFCE as well).
  At this point, I tried to download the  Debian8 ISO image and I noticed that the installer doesn't recognize the video size, too but then asks for the user to manually select a suitable video format from a list of options. >From that point on, I was able to install Debian on the chromebook.

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