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Thanks for the info fehlix. There are Lenovo laptops as well as Acer with the exact same issue.
On the reboot after the final freeze, the computer reboots to grub in minimal command line mode i.e. grub is installed but not configured to boot Linux.
For me, this works booting from live USB after ...

Experienced exact same problem trying to install MX18.3 on Acer ES1-533.
On other versions of Linux, same thing happens. The key to it all is the --no-nvram switch to stop the computer crashing during grub install due to an intentionally dodgy UEFI implementation.
This is not unique to Acer laptops ...