Samsung Chromebook3 MX works antiX will not boot

[Member Buck Fankers]

I replaced BIOS with MrChromebook, MX 17 works on it although without sound.

But antiX would be more suitable for this weak laptop. I can’t get any antiX to even boot from live USB.

I tried:
17.2_x64-full
17.1_x64-full
17_x64-full
17.2_x64-base
17.2_386-base
Same with latest mx 18.1 beta all give me the same error

First I see: Error: unknown filesystem, press any key to continue

Few seconds later or it I press a key, I see asci like boot menu, no graphic, no F options at the bottom, there are two boot options (none works, screen just goes dark and stays tat way, cant switch to TTY, third option is memory test and if I choose it, i get another error:

Error: disk ‘hd0 msdos2’ not found

Interestingly, MX 17 does bot and I managed to install it.
But new beta MX 18.1 is acting the same as all 17 antix versions.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Specs:

My guess/hope is, since MX uses antiX base and since MX 17 works, maybe I can get antiX on it too somehow

$ inxi -Fxrz
System: Host: mx Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon March 14 2018 base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: GOOGLE product: Celes v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: GOOGLE model: Celes v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: coreboot v: MrChromebox date: 08/27/2018
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.1 Wh condition: 34.6/33.4 Wh (103%) model: SDI 4352D44 status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N3060 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Airmont rev: 4
L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 6400
Speed: 1971 MHz min/max: 480/2480 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1666 2: 705
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) v: 4.5 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 14.68 GiB used: 7.04 GiB (48.0%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: DF4016 size: 14.68 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 11.18 GiB used: 7.04 GiB (63.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/mmcblk0p3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1:

$ inxi -Fxrz

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Buck Fankers.
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Forgot to mention, antiX base did boot into cli, but I’m too green I wouldn’t know what to do, how to even start with install, what to choose to install… I’m windows refugee and I’m lost without gui 😉

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I see asci like boot menu, no graphic, no F options at the bottom, there are two boot options (none works, screen just goes dark and stays tat way

I don’t have a solution, just posting to mention that you description matches what I experienced when booting the new MX Linux beta… and that by waiting a full 3 minutes (while “just a black screen” is displayed) it did finally boot successfully.

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