Trouble installing linux on chromebook

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So I have reached the coreboot management screen, and it recognizes the usb but it always says the booting failed, to verify it contains a vaild 64-bit uefi os. I have tried downloading different linuxs’ (Arch debian or opensuse), on four different usbs but I always get the same message. What are other things I can try to download linux?

(I’m not tech savy, this is my first time trying something like this, but I became very interested in this and would like to see it through, thanks in advance to any advice!)

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How exactly are you writing these os images to the usb drive?

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Usually when I have that problem is cause you didn’t write/burn correctly

or it’s trying to boot from the hard drive and the boot order is all jacked up

Are you using Rufus to burn the iso/image ?

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Hey so honestly I’m not sure what that would be so I’m probably not doing that step. I’m following the steps via the mrchromebox site. Can you explain how I would go about doing that? Or if there’s somewhere I can read up on that?

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Hey, I wasn’t. I was trying to download straight from the arch/debian website but I’ll try it through there. Thanks for your help, I’ll let you know if that works!

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