Flashing USB drive for pi4B from ChromeBook

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Evening all

I’m trying to flash a brand new unused USB drive (SANDISK 128GB extreme pro) to boot Chromium on a Pi4B using Balena Etcher from my ChromeBook but I keep getting the “Attention. Something went wrong”… dialogue

This my workflow

  1. enabled Linux on Chromebook
  2. downloaded and ran Balena Etcher 1.18.11
  3. downloaded the Chromium image chromiumos_image_r108-rpi4b.img.xz to Downloads
  4. Shared Downloads folder to Linux
  5. Enabled Linux to see and manage my USB devices
  6. Ran Etcher
  7. Selected the Chromium image from mbt/chromeos/MyFiles/Downloads
  8. Clicked Flash
  9. and fail with the “Attention…dialogue”

Any hints, questions, advice, etc all gratefully accepted.

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Update : I have also asked for assistance on this matter on GitHub with more screenshots here

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Hello, there is no official Etcher release for ChromeOS, so your results may vary. There is an older thread where this was discussed that may have some useful information: If I have Chrome OS How Do I Use Etcher - #10 by ThunderDemon04