Xubuntu install on Win7 laptop fails

[Guang Chao]

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:00 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Lenovo ThinkPad at work where we are required to have Windows
> on the machine. I shrank the Windows partition so I could install
> Xubuntu 16.04.2 and run with that without destroying the Windows
> installation.  I used my 16Gb Patriot flash drive (even though this is
> the one that gave me headaches with my own laptop and never did boot
> Xubuntu there, though it runs fine as a live boot - I'll be replacing
> that image soon...).
>
> Everything appeared to go well and the install finished, but when I
> rebooted, the machine came up part way in Windows, then began flashing
> through the RGB colors on the monitors. I never saw the grub menu or
> had the option to bring up Xubuntu.  There were no error messages,
> just the colors.
>
> I had to cycle the power and tell it to boot up normally (from the
> Windows safe boot options screen).
>
> This is another first.  I'm thinking of running gparted from my
> gparted flash drive to see what's going on, but I'm hesitant to do too
> much since it is, after all, a work machine, not my own.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
>
Did you disable secure boot?  Maybe the reason GRUB not loading.  Then
reinstall Ubuntu using livecd.


> MR
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