Acer V5-171 Windows 8 + Ubuntu help

[Colin Law]

On 19 January 2013 13:34, Artifex Maximus <artifexor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at outlook.com> wrote:
>> I don’t quite understand the question, but I’ll try to answer it. Canonical and Ubuntu developers have created a signed key, so when Ubuntu is installed and Secure Boot is enabled, Ubuntu is able to boot correctly without having key errors. If I didn’t answer the question, I apologize. Have a great rest of the week!
>
> Thanks for your answer. I know that Microsoft digitally signed the
> relevant file(s) but looks like Acer only allows manually selected
> .efi files which must be on FAT32 partition. Because install CD/DVD is
> not FAT32 I need to create a USB pendrive to install Ubuntu by copying
> files from disk to USB pendrive. Copy ISO file with dd is not enough.
> When I copy the content of disk and allow the boot of bootx64.efi in
> the BIOS the system boots but no error displayed and screen remains
> black. I tried the same with Fedora 18 but no success. The difference
> that Fedora loader says that loader is whitelisted (I think in SB
> means) and "GRUB is loading". So I think the loading process is stuck
> at some GRUB stage but no idea where.
>
> I think this is mostly Acer related problem but try to find some
> solution and asking because others might have the same problem and
> found some solution.

Ron Rhodes posted the following recently:
>I was aware of the problems being experienced with the new UEFI used on W8 but was confident I'd find a solution and be able to install Ubuntu. It took me several weeks but I succeeded by delving into the Ubuntu forums, eventually I found a posting which explained you needed a licence key which 12.04-1 LTS didn't have but that the newly released 12.10 64bit ISO does have. It has to be the 64bit and you need to use a USB Flash Drive following the appropriate instructions on the Ubuntu site and it worked and I have been dual booting and using Ubuntu for over a month.

>The posting also said that the 12.04-2 LTS release due out this month will have the licence key which I am looking forward to so that I can go back to the LTS version.

Note that to put the iso on a usb stick use the instructions linked to
by links at the bottom right of
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop.

Colin