Fwd: Installing Ubuntu-Gnome on an Acer V5-171 Notebook win 10.

[Albert Westra]

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From: Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu-Gnome on an Acer V5-171 Notebook win 10.
To: <jjstccean at telkomsa.net>


I read on the Acer forums, in order to disable secure boot you need to set
a supervisor password.
http://community.acer.com/t5/2013-Archives/How-do-I-disable-secure-boot-on-an-Aspire-V5-171/m-p/46701#M42393

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 1:50 AM Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Rufus for example did you flash the image with the UEFI option? Have
> you tried other USB drives? When you enable UEFI through the firmware, is
> secure boot disabled? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just trying to get
> an idea of what you've done so far. I know if you create an image with
> Ubuntu start up disk application, UEFI is enabled. So unless UEFI is
> enabled in the firmware, it won't boot. I know Rufus has an option to
> enable UEFI support.
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 1:43 AM Nick Els <jjstccean at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I did through the F12 key and showing the available boot devices. With
>> UEFI turned on no boot devices are available - very strange I'd say.
>>
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>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried manually selecting the device during boot up. Dose it
>>> detect the USB drive within the firmware?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 1:18 AM Nick Els <jjstccean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've done all that, including turning off/on UEFI and using Rufus as
>>>> well as Lili USB creator.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
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>>>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would try turning on UEFI and see what happens and probably see if
>>>>> using Rufus to create the usbLive image will help.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015, 11:20 PM Nick Els <jjstccean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not able to get the Ubuntu-Gnome setup to run from the USB stick.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've disabled UEFI in the bios and disabled windows 10 fast start
>>>>>> feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> when selecting the USB stick as the boot source then the boot source
>>>>>> is being accessed the screen changes to black with the cursor sitting at
>>>>>> the top left blinking - nothing happens, even waiting for 5 minutes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Installed the stick using unetbootin-windows-613
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions, help will be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
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