I have an Acer chromebook spin 514-2h with board name VOEMA model EZKINIL. I installed full UEFI rom from mrchromebox.Everything seemed working well but at the end when I saw the rabbit, I pressed ESC to have the menu, pressed the key for my usb key to load zorin linux. It reads the 4 choices, I pressed for #1 it starts spinning black screen then reboot to the rabbit. I tried several distribtions, all the same thing.What did I miss? Tks
those are two completely different devices. Which does the firmware say at the top of the settings menu?
According to MrChromebox.tech, my Acer chromebook spin 514 (CP514-2h), my HWID/Board name
is VOEMA (Intel core I3-1110g4 processor, dual-core 2.50 ghz, 8 gb, LPDDRAX, 256 GB SSD.
When I apply the procedure to remove the chromeOS at the boot into recovery mode by pressing the ESC+refresh+power
button it showed me my board model was EZKINIL-MYQR, hope this help a bit.
how can I make this any more clear? Using the Make/Model to determine the board name is backwards and wrong
I asked what name is shown at the top the UEFI firmware menu. I don’t understand why you’d tell me two other things I didn’t ask for, but not the one I did.
Then your device is EZKINIL.
Impossible to say, since you provided no details of what you actually did. Failure to boot from USB usually means it’s an issue with the media or how it’s written, though if it booted to the grub menu and failed to boot after that, that would suggest something else.
I just downloaded Zorin-OS-17.3-Core-64-bit-r2.iso and wrote it to USB using the gnome disk imaging tool, and had no issue booting it on Morphius with the 25.03 release firmware.
To simplify what I did, I apply all the procedure for my acer chromebook become full Linux operating. I followed the video of Veronica on internet which are the same procedure of mrchromebox.tech. The final result is I’m stuck on the menu page after pressing the ESC key while in the rabbit is on screen. the menu page indicate my Acer Chromebook spin 514 (Ezkinil), FW MrChromebox-2503.0 04/27/2025, CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3250C 15W with Radeon Graphics, RAM: 4985 MB, and lower I have the boot menu, boot manager and Advanced Configuration. If I have all these info doesn’t that mean I applied the procedure correctly! If not does it have a way that the chromebook reconize the eMMc and boot from my zorin usb stick. Since I only can communicate with the chromebook via shell or grub is there any way to write something that they will show the way to proceed correctly. Thank you.
clearly you have flashed the latest firmware, but if your USB won’t boot, then it makes sense to look at how that was created, no? “I tried Zorin” doesn’t tell me anything useful, which is why I gave you the details I did about what I tested