Hello, i tried to install Zorin OS 17 on my chromebook, it supposedly meets the specifications, and the install worked up until it said "unable to install grub in /dev/sda", then saying it was a fatal error. i chose to press ok, then it said installation was finished and to reboot, and it rebooted into grub 2.06
i may sound stupid.
anyways, i cant figure out how to load or find the kernel to try to boot zorin os, even though it said fatal error. how would i go about finding it?
doing something like "ls (hd0,gpt2)/lost+found/ just leads to grub saying absolutely nothing.
please help or give advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried running Grub repair from the LiveUSB?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Chromebooks meet the Hardware Specifications; however, Chromebooks also tend to be a rather "locked-down" system to hardware product. Often, even the BIOS settings are more limited.
Installing GnuLinux on a chromebook usually requires some pre-work to sidestep these locks and prepare the hardware to be unlocked and accept a new operating system.
Chromebooks are built to be used with ChromeOS and the product makers had no intention of anyone ever being permitted by them to use a different OS than what they want you to use.
Many Chromebooks are also ARM architecture, not X64. IS yours ARM architecture?
https://docs.chrultrabook.com/
Heres a guide for installing linux on chromebooks
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