Hi everyone,
I’ve installed one of the latest version of Manjaro Linux on a Toshiba HDD by a Windows PC and when I tried to start it everithing went very well I do some setting too and so on, but whenn I try to start it by my Chromebook (version 127.0.6533.132, it have also 4 GB RAM and a 1.1 ghz CPU up to 2.8 so the problem is not in the specifics) it show me just a folder named $RECYCLED.BIN and other two with settings etc. and it said to be not able to start it because there is not a valid image on disk.
So what I have to do to work on an HDD by Chromebook? Thank you in advance.
Frankly, I have no idea what you are asking.
Hi @Luke90 and welcome to the Manjaro community.
As a new user, please take some time to familiarise yourself with Forum requirements; in particular, the many ways to use the forum to your benefit:
Try again, but this time please think about what you are writing, and remember that nobody else knows what you are thinking; so explain things carefully.
Cheers.
I’ll add that $RECYCLE.BIN is a Windows system file. Did you try to install Manjaro on an NTFS partition? (that can’t possibly work).
What CPU does your Chromebook have? ARM CPU?
You do know, i hope, that running any other os on a Chromebook can be complicated? The least will be to put in the developer mode. And then the key to press to disable secure boot. And then not every os will run with every uefi on every board. And then the architecture. And then this or that part of the hardware will be without proper driver under normal linux.
Running alternate os on a Chromebook is definitely not a beginner friendly procedure. If you are up for the task you will be better off on some chromebook forum. Or XDA. And then search instructions and feedback for the specific board (the most important - does the wifi work).
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Welcome to the forum! 
What is that? 
I can neither find anything called larìsts nor larists.
Manjaro does not officially support Chromebooks. Whatever you installed is provided by a third-party.
Please seek support from wherever you found whatever you’re talking about.
EDIT: Sorry, misunderstood. 
I’m not sure whether Chromebooks can boot from an external drive. It appears to be looking for a filesystem image, but an installed Manjaro system is not a filesystem image anymore.
Furthermore, Wikipedia has this to say about Chromebooks… 
Either way, you will have to look into the documentation/manual of your Chromebook. This is not a generic x86-64 machine.
Furthermore, as @omano brought up, if your Chromebook uses an ARM-based processor — personally, I don’t know whether that is the case — then you won’t be able to run an x86-64 system on it.
Interesting point. 
Indeed, it can’t and it won’t.
Exactly. It’s a pretty locked-down device by default, and cracking it open is not for the faint of heart, just as Manjaro itself is not a suitable distribution for absolute beginners.
@Luke90, please read the following essay…
Laris is a Romulan female who served at Jean-Luc Picard’s winery in France as his housekeeper, and who later on became his lover, about a year and a half after her husband Zhaban had passed away.
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It didn’t know there was a Laris edition… 
I apparently misunderstood and edited my reply above.
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There seems too much whiskey in the 'jaro for me to follow this thread’s trek through Manjaro codenames. 
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I hope I have got this mess sorted right.
No, wrong startpoint.
First you have to prepare yourself and the chromebook. And it only works, if it’s a x86-64 architecure. Start here:
- https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/
- Supported Devices | MrChromebox.tech ==> First check, if your device is supported, then prepare yourself and beginn to read. This is not done just by snipping with fingers.
- Getting Started | MrChromebox.tech what is the TL;DR?
Good luck.
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Well, hang on, because there may also come a Tallinn version… Tallinn was a Romulan Supervisor, sent by the Travelers to watch over Renée Picard, and she was the spitting image (and possibly an ancestor) of Laris.
Both roles were played by the same actress, Orla Brady. 
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Off topic:- I’ve seen that phrase used a lot over the years; an example of (possibly unavoidable) language degeneration. It probably evolved from “the splitting image” at some point; which, at least, seems more logical that a spit. It often amuses me how these propogate; and even use them myself at times, without realising. 
Glad to be of service.
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Yes, I’ve read that at some point. Language is an evolution in itself.
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Spitting image is at least a century older than splitting image:
The numerous forms of the term ‘spitting image’ – spit and image, spitten image, the dead spit of etc., appear not to derive from ‘split’ but from ‘spit’.
Some commentators have suggested that ‘spit’ may be a corruption of ‘spirit’, but that appears to be fanciful and isn’t backed up by any early examples of ‘spirit and image’. The allusion is more likely to be to someone who is so similar to another as to appear to have been spat out of his mouth. That idea, if not the exact phrase, was in circulation by the end of the 17th century, when George Farquhar used it in his comic play Love and a bottle, 1689:
“Poor child! he’s as like his own dadda as if he were spit out of his mouth.”
No version of the phrase is especially old. The earliest reference is in Andrew Knapp and W. Baldwin’s The Newgate Calendar, 1824–26:
“A daughter, … the very spit of the old captain.”
This pre-dates any ‘splitting image’ citation by a good hundred years
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No relation to the Disney dude, referenced in Shrek, right?
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Intel Celeron
Latest, you’re right I’ve correct it now.
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Latest version of Manjaro, I’ve correct it now.
Yes, is an NTFS partition, but I choosen that because I thought that it was the best for install Linux for that reason.
Ok, very interesting and esaustive things for the moment, I’ll try.
And about Manjaro, what if I tried a different distibution, sach as Ubuntu?