[Bug 1530530] Re: Installer doesn't show up on some Chromebook

[Timo Jyrinki]

Fedora 23 boots fine, as does Ubuntu when created with unetbootin (which
is otherwise somewhat unrecommendable tool for Ubuntu USB).

I'm available with my Braswell based Chromebook if anyone wants to debug
this.

I needed to use Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS created from 14.04 installation since
unetbootin is not maintained at the moment and creating 16.04 USB from
16.04 Ubuntu did not work.

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Title:
  Installer doesn't show up on some Chromebook

Status in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I downloaded Ubuntu Wily 15.10, then copied into an USB drive in order to use that to install Ubuntu on my Chromebook Pixel 2.
  After selecting the drive to boot from, I only get a terminal that shows up the following lines:

  graphics initialization failed
  Error setting up gfxboot
  boot:

  Same happens with any *buntu ISO image ( I tried KDE and XFCE as well).
  At this point, I tried to download the  Debian8 ISO image and I noticed that the installer doesn't recognize the video size, too but then asks for the user to manually select a suitable video format from a list of options. >From that point on, I was able to install Debian on the chromebook.

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