(I posted a similar post to this on the pcspecialist forums a couple of days back. The welcome suggestion there of using Unetbootin didn't help. I'm hoping somebody here can!)

Hi,

I'm having great difficulty installing Ubuntu derivatives (Mint and Elementary OS) on a new UltraNote IV LE 14". I've tried bootable USB sticks, copying an installation from a USB stick to a drive partition with GParted and cloning the same with CloneZilla.

The USB sticks get as far as the Grub screen then go to a blank screen regardless of whether I choose to install or run from the stick. The copy and cloning attempts only led to the Terminal style Grub screen without the boot options. I didn't expect those to work but thought they were worth a shot.

Antergos, which is Arch rather than Debian based, installed fine but I'd much rather install Elementary OS and Mint on separate partitions.

GParted and CloneZilla took a very long time to get going when used on bootable USB sticks so I waited quite a while on several occasions with the Ubuntu based installs but nothing happened after over 30 minutes. The Antergos install didn't show any signs of being slow.

Has anybody faced this problem and/or have any ideas? I had a look through the Linux forums here but couldn't find anything which helped.

Thanks.

Specs:

Chassis & Display UltraNote: 14" Glossy HD LED Backlit Widescreen (1366x768)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Pentium® Quad Core Processor N4200 (4 x 1.10GHz, 2.2GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card Integrated Intel® HD Graphics
1st Hard Disk 500GB SEAGATE HYBRID 2.5" SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
Partitions: 500GB
M.2 SSD Drive 120GB KINGSTON SSDNow M.2 2280 G2, SATA 6Gb/s (550MB/R, 200MB/W)
Partitions: 120GB

Dave Plummer,

Welcome to LQ.

I have not come across this.

It is strange that Antergos has no problem at all with the installation.

Just out of curiosity, why not try this Debian-based MX-16 which has these recent positive reviews:

http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2017/0...-to-ideal.html

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mx-16.html

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Probably caused by this being Apollo Trail, which is simply TOO new. It's the "low end" kaby lake. I know when Cherry Trail (low end sky lake) was released, there were MAJOR issues with anything that wasn't using the absolute NEWEST kernel working. Arch is using a 4.9 kernel, so you're probably going to need a distro running the 4.9 kernel also to get it to work.

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Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

I had a go at installing MX-16, which went fine, but it's not really up to scratch enough for me to switch to. Still, it did pretty much prove that it is indeed a kernel issue. I'll have to wait for Elementary to catch up!

Thanks both for your help.

You can install the mainline ubuntu kernels for Elementary (or at least you could), so you should be able to install a newer kernel that way.

Thanks Timothy. I had a look at that but it's all a bit beyond me. Antergos is OK for the time being, though it does seem to have a few idiosyncrasies!