Monday, February 29, 2016

boot - Installer Crash and "No Bootable Device" with Acer R11

On the Acer Aspire R11 I tried running Ubuntu from the USB, it was awesome!!


Touch features and a fully powered laptop !!


But when I wanted to install Ubuntu (I had downloaded 14.04.3) the problems appear :


I chose to erase Windows and make only one partition



  • Installation seemed to work fine, everything looking good, BUT:

  • On restart, after I remove the USB it shows error "no bootable device"


I went into the BIOS and tried to repeat the installation with :



  • secure mode disabled and then with it enabled

  • using legacy instead of UEFI, then tried UEFI again

  • F12 boot was already enabled from the start

  • In order to disable the secure boot mode, I had to create a boot admin password, so I have done.


In all these permutations, I tried to install Ubuntu from the USB but:


Each time the installation is aborted about half way through downloading files (i.e. after the "who are you?" screen)


What to do?

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