Acer V5-171 Windows 8 + Ubuntu help

[Colin Law]

On 19 January 2013 15:21, Artifex Maximus <artifexor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Thanks for your answer. I tried using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.2.4
> with Ubuntu 12.10 64bit ISO image as instructions describe but no
> success. Still just a black screen on boot and no install menu.

Do you see the keyboard icon and the little man at the bottom of the
screen right at the start of booting?  If so then hit a key.

Colin