[xubuntu-users] Please help

[Joao Monteiro]

Hi again Donny,

Sorry for the rushed replies, very busy here.

Listen, modern computers BIOS come with many new protection settings,
different boot options (EFI, UEFI, etc) for many different reasons
(manufacturers copyrights, marketing, microsoft greed, etc)

So, you need to run through all your BIOS settings and adjust them to allow
for installation of a different operating system, booting from usb, etc

If you have a setting (tick box) for Enable Legacy Firmware, tick it... I
found it to help with this new Dell I have as well (can't tell you why
because I'm a relativelly newbie to Linux, but seems that it helps with
some old drivers installation)

The one thing you MUST do, however, is to DISABLE the SECURE BOOT.

If you don't, your machine will ignore everything at boot time and just
boot to windows or ask you for a safeguard (or whatever similar protection
software) password.

So, before you do anything further, try to disable secure boot and reboot
your laptop.

Because for what you say, it looks like ubuntu has successfully installed,
but the machine just won't boot to it...

If it still doesn't boot after that, adjust all BIOS settings as mentioned
above, then reinstall ubuntu, then reboot.

It will work.

Hope this helps

J.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2022, 09:37 Joao Monteiro, <jmonteiro257 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had trouble with a recent DELL...found it to be all due to the settings
> in the Bios...
>
> First of all, disable secure boot, the check all other settings like
> allowing booting from usb, install from legacy, etc
>
> Then reinstall ubuntu
>
> It should work fine.
>
> J.
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2022, 08:13 Alex Johns, <chris352011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try Ubuntu Mate 22.04
>>
>> Have had trouble with an early Toshiba. but Mate sorted it
>>
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