Acer Chromebook 14 Keyboard and Mousepad not working at & after the login prompt.

Hello, I would reeeeaally appreciate help with my problem.

So I am trying to boot Kali Live from a USB on my Acer Chromebook 14.

The specs are:
CPU: 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron N3160 processor (quad-core, 2MB cache, up to 2.24GHz)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 400
RAM: 4GB LPDDR3
Screen: 14-inch 1,920 x 1,080 display
Storage: 32GB solid state drive
Ports: 2 x USB 3.0, HDMI, headphone jack
Connectivity: Intel 802.11ac, Bluetooth
Camera: Built-in webcam
Weight: 3.42 pounds (1696g)
Size: 13.4 x 9.3 x 0.67 inches (340mm x 236 x 17mm) (W x D x H)

I have successfully put the ISO on the USB, and I can boot from it without problem on a MacBook Pro with these spec(I'm not sure if it's useful, but whatever, just trying to give as much info as possible.) :
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp619?locale=en_US

When I plug it into my Chromebook and get to the boot menu and choose "Live (amd64)", from what I can tell, it all works fine. But once I get to the login prompt it all get's bad. My keyboard works kind of, but when I type I have to click to make it actually input it into the username and password boxes. With some effort I can get past that, but then when I login, neither the keyboard or the mousepad on my Chromebook work.

I can use external mouse and keyboard but only one at a time since I have only two USB ports and I'm using Kali Live in one port already.

Please help me, and a very huge thank you in advance.

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Originally Posted by kaleblub

Hello, I would reeeeaally appreciate help with my problem.

So I am trying to boot Kali Live from a USB on my Acer Chromebook 14.

The specs are:
CPU: 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron N3160 processor (quad-core, 2MB cache, up to 2.24GHz)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 400
RAM: 4GB LPDDR3
Screen: 14-inch 1,920 x 1,080 display
Storage: 32GB solid state drive
Ports: 2 x USB 3.0, HDMI, headphone jack
Connectivity: Intel 802.11ac, Bluetooth
Camera: Built-in webcam
Weight: 3.42 pounds (1696g)
Size: 13.4 x 9.3 x 0.67 inches (340mm x 236 x 17mm) (W x D x H)

I have successfully put the ISO on the USB, and I can boot from it without problem on a MacBook Pro with these spec(I'm not sure if it's useful, but whatever, just trying to give as much info as possible.) :
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp619?locale=en_US

When I plug it into my Chromebook and get to the boot menu and choose "Live (amd64)", from what I can tell, it all works fine. But once I get to the login prompt it all get's bad. My keyboard works kind of, but when I type I have to click to make it actually input it into the username and password boxes. With some effort I can get past that, but then when I login, neither the keyboard or the mousepad on my Chromebook work.

I can use external mouse and keyboard but only one at a time since I have only two USB ports and I'm using Kali Live in one port already.

Please help me, and a very huge thank you in advance.

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Ive had this problem with other distros. Same with windows 10 it had something to do with the drivers for os and your notebook (acer). With windows I went right to the acer web sight and had to download the missing drivers for my certain laptop (also a acer) good luck with kali though you might try to check ubuntu drivers or maybe debian drivers should be on the homepages. I m certain that kali runs off of debian. Backtrack used to run on ubuntu im think. Good luck.

Are you using 2017.1? If not, try. If yes, try the weekly isos: http://cdimage.kali.org/kali-images/kali-weekly/

I just put kali-linux-xfce-2017-W23-amd64.iso on the USB drive and tried booting into it, I couldn't pass the boot menu, I'd press "enter" on "Live (amd64)" and it would start to load then go right back to the boot menu. I gave it multiple tries through multiple boots, still no luck. So I think I'm gonna put the first iso on the USB again and try what bigbiz said, download the missing drivers.