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How to boot to Ubuntu on W8 laptop

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  • 19-04-2014 7:49pm
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    v638sg7k1a92bx
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    Installed Ubuntu on a USB key today, ran the demo installation on a Windows 7 laptop but can't seem to boot to the USB on Windows 8.1. It's an Acer Aspire V5, have tried hitting F12 when booting but no joy. Anyone familiar with this or come across before?


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    ZENER
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    I think you'll need to disable Protected Boot if you can find it.

    Ken


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    v638sg7k1a92bx
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    ZENER wrote: »
    I think you'll need to disable Protected Boot if you can find it.

    Ken

    Yikes. I don't want to start tinkering with all that dangerous stuff.


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    ZENER
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    Have you completely shut down the laptop first ?

    Hit the Windows Key and the R key together and in the resulting box type "shutdown -s".
    Once the laptop has shutdown then try restarting and try the F2 key to enter the BIOS.

    Ken


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    Dermot Illogical
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    Here's my experience with an Acer Aspire desktop.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85575351


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    THE ALM
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    Was trying to do the same thing yesterday myself and what I had to do was click shutdown while holding the shift key, this completely shuts down the pc and not just the hibernate mode that shutdown normally puts the pc in. When starting up again then hit F12 and this will bring you to the boot setup and just select USB.


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    ZENER
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    THE ALM wrote: »
    Was trying to do the same thing yesterday myself and what I had to do was click shutdown while holding the shift key, this completely shuts down the pc and not just the hibernate mode that shutdown normally puts the pc in. When starting up again then hit F12 and this will bring you to the boot setup and just select USB.

    The same as giving the shutdown -s command. You will still need to find and disable the Protected Boot , did you see that anywhere in the BIOS/UEFI settings ? May help the OP ?

    Ken


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    truedoom
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    if you have a SSD it may be that the OS is starting to Boot so quickly it's not giving you time to load the bios options.

    Are you able to get into the BIOS at all?


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    THE ALM
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    ZENER wrote: »
    The same as giving the shutdown -s command. You will still need to find and disable the Protected Boot , did you see that anywhere in the BIOS/UEFI settings ? May help the OP ?

    Ken

    Didn't have to disable anything, hitting F12 brought me up the options to boot from hdd, cd rom and usb, just selected usb and it booted straight to the linux os.


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