#Trying to install Mint on chromebook

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zealous charm
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Hi, I'm brand new to all this, I've been trying to install Mint (as far as I know, latest Cinnamon version, checked the SHA sum) on my Acer R11. I've put the ISO on a flash drive, and I got my chromebook in recovery/developer mode, and whenever I press ctrl-U (to boot from external drive) the screen goes dark for a moment, beeps, and comes back on. I'm not sure exactly the steps that I've been taking but I've been following a couple guides, mainly these: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/boot-modes/recovery.html https://www.wikihow.com/Enable-USB-Booting-on-Chromebook https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot.html

Recovery Mode | MrChromebox.tech

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wikiHow
Enable USB Booting on Chromebook

A step-by-step guide to enabling USB booting in Developer Mode & recovering from an external diskIf you want to boot up your Chromebook from a USB drive or another external device, such as an SD card, you can enable that option in...

crude anchor
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i can only guess and say make sure the live USB you prepared used GUID Partition Table to write the drive

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see our #1295816480256163892 article, extra attention to step 4b

zealous charm
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thank you

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is there no Mac version for Ventoy? I used BalenaEtcher to make my USB

crude anchor
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that perhaps may run in Mac terminal. as long as it's x86 processor

zealous charm
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no, it's ARM

crude anchor
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there is an aarch executable in the ventoy package.

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idk if it's graphic or commandline

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see the ventoy official website for more details

vestal junco
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Have you disabled the device's hardware firmware write protection = screw?

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I also got a r11 and I unscrewed the screw on the motherboard

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with 4 GB i also recommend Mint XFCE

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I followed these instructions for replacing ChromeOs