Ubuntu on an Acer Chromebook 14 CB3-431

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 20:25, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As noted in the "subject" of my initial email, the make and model of the device is "Acer Chromebook 14 CB3-431".

Oh, sorry! I totally missed that. My bad and my apologies.

> The Ventoy version is 1.0.62 UEFI.

OK, so it's not that then.

(I had to upgrade Ventoy recently just in order to install Mint. I got
GRUB errors on my previous version, which had worked on everything
else I tried.)

> The firmware on the Chromebook is Mr Chromebox-49 02/26/2019

Aha!

So, there's a fair bit of info on his site:
https://mrchromebox.tech/#alt_os

> I used the
abovementioned Ventory stick to install Bunsenlabs. It didn't work. I
ended up at the UEFI command prompt.
> Then I used the Ventoy stick to install Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and on booting I ended up at the GRUB2 command prompt.
> So I created another, non-Ventoy, USB memory stick to install Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and, after installing via that, I still just get to the GRUB2 command prompt.

So, it's not Ventoy.

I would compare the Mr Chromebox version on his site with your
version. I fear reinstalling it might require reinstalling ChromeOS
though.

And there are some hints.

E.g. on some machines you need to add `nomodeset` to the GRUB
parameters, while installing, by typing it after the double dash in
the GRUB parameters -- IIRC, before the double dash is temporary and
is discarded, but after it is kept.

Citation:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XmPbTppwzi4J:ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/centos0/ks/ubuntu-ics-14.04.minimal.cfg+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=cz

«

#   - The '--' option (double-dash) tells debian-installer that every option
#     that comes *after* the double-dash should be appended to the kernel
#     boot line for the installed system, in addition to being used for the
#     installation. Use this to provide boot options that need to stick after
#     the installation. Options to define a console over serial should be
#     placed here.

»

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