Samsung Chromebook 3 Celeron based

I am having problems installing Kali to an SD card or a USB thumbdrive in the Samsung I just bought cheap. I already have Kali loaded on a USB that boots just fine with my windows laptops, but it does not work on the Chromebook even with developer mode established. I got Arch to install and boot but it would never go into any of the shells I tried, so gave up on that. But Kali doesn't even boot. I have gone back and forth between the celeron/Intel and chromebook instructions trying to set up a boot partition etc., and nothing seems to work. Anyone have a suggestion as to which set of instructions on this site I should stick closest too, and what might be the issue?

Thanks,
Steve