Tuesday, November 13, 2018

live usb - Booting Ubuntu12.10 USB on Asus X401a Win8

This is my first time replacing an OS with Linux. I want to replace windows with Ubuntu 12.10 on my Asus X401a. The laptop does not have an optical drive so I need to use a USB stick.


I've read all the topics I can find on the topic of installing on this particular machine to no avail. It seems that no one has a problem getting the USB stick to boot.


I have written the iso to USB using Startup Disk Creator, I disabled safe-boot, and fast-boot on the laptop but when I enter the bios and tell it to boot from USB (UEFI: CBM) it still boots into Windows 8. I've tried disabling all boot options except USB and it just boots right back into the bios.


Any help would be greatly appreciated as I bought this laptop specifically to run Ubuntu.

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