Additional Instructions for Creating USB Installation Media

Greeting Everyone,
I have been trying to install archlinux on my Acer c720 chromebook.  The instructions have been posted on one of the forums and I have been following them and ran into a bit of a problem.  For some mysterious reason using Syslinux as the bootloader (I think I got that right) puts the C720 into reboot immediately.  The forums indicate that I should use GRUB instead of Syslinux.  Great! That is exactly what I want to do, and here is the problem:
The instructions for creating the USB Flash Installation Media give step by step instructions for getting archlinux.iso and Syslinux on to the USB memory stick - which I followed and succeeded- but no instructions on how to put GRUB on there instead of Syslinux.
Could someone give me instructions on how to do that.
I am following the "Manual Formatting" --- "In Windows" section of the wiki titled "USB Flash Installation Media."
Just so everyone knows this is my first venture into linux world and away from point and click windows world.....

Steef435 wrote:
Those instructions are about the installation(about what you choose to install on your harddisk). So they aren't important yet if you haven't managed to boot up the usb drive. What three images did you try? You should get the image from here:
https://www.archlinux.org/download/
Did you try booting the drive on other machines and how did that go? Did you go through all the instructions described in the wiki(enabling developer mode and enabling legacy boot) and did you get to the boot menu?
Were you able to select the usb drive in the boot menu?
On a side-note, I don't have a Chromebook so I'm not able to confirm the instructions on how to enable developer mode etc.
Yes I used the following images from archlinux.org:
archlinux-2013.10.01-dual.iso
archlinux-2014.01.05-dual.iso
and the third was from a random selection from the drop down menu in LiLi USB creator.
Yes I have followed the instructions from the installation wiki and was able to get the developer mode and to the boot menu on the c720 and able to select USB to boot from.
As I mentioned earlier I had success using the method for creating a USB Installation in the wiki (under  "Using manual formatting", "In Windows" https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_Media ) I was able to get the archlinux splash screen and it tries to install but resets.  And I figured out that this happens because following the instructions I end up with archlinux and Syslinux on the USB and I need arclinux and GRUB.
Hence my request for additional instructions for getting archlinux and GRUB onto a USB for installation.
I will try the USB installation created using LiLi on a different computer - it is much older though and I am not sure it has enough memory for it.

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