Acer V5-171 Windows 8 + Ubuntu help

[Artifex Maximus]

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.

Bye,
a