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Netbooks-Deliberately crippled by Microsoft's 32-bit UEFI firmware

Posted 04-12-2023 at 02:10 AM by beachboy2
Updated 04-12-2023 at 04:21 AM by beachboy2

Trying to install Linux on a Windows netbook with 32-bit UEFI firmware?

There are some netbooks/tablets/cheap laptops with an x64 capable processor, that are crippled by 32-bit UEFI firmware and originally ran 32-bit Windows only.

The reason for that is because Microsoft received less money for licensing Windows on netbooks than for laptops and desktop PCs, so most of these netbooks ran software like Windows 7 Starter with reduced functionality.

If customers...
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Installing Linux on an Acer Aspire E11 netbook

Posted 01-13-2017 at 01:31 AM by beachboy2
Tags acer, boot, e11, netbook, uefi

For the benefit of anybody who is having problems installing Linux on the Acer E11 netbook:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/install...er-aspire-e11/

Changing Acer F12 Boot Menu option to Enable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KycrBtjuJHc

You should be able to use the UEFI boot (instead of using Legacy) with your USB HDD, without disabling Secure Boot.

If you prefer to disable SB and use Legacy then:

Changing BIOS mode from UEFI...
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