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1- installed unbuntu-20.04.01 desktop on my windows10 Asus notebook
2- when I reopen my notebook i had the message: there is no more Bitlocker recovery options on your PC
3 Went to advanced in Bios and start Easy Flash
4 In Asustek Easy Flash Utility that opened, I see in the section New Bios, Platform : unknown, version unknown, build date : unknown, build time unknown.
In Current Bios section there is Platform T100TA, Version 313, build date aug 13, 2014, ...
I have install Rufus-3.13.exe on a stick and plug it to the computer and nothing happened.
5- I have configure the Bios to boots from USB
It seems the computer doesn't read at all the USB.
I may have <removed> the BIOS or a key is missing to upload from the USB.
Help please!

Rufus can be installed in Windows or you can download the portable version which does not require installation. You fire it up, select your USB drive in the menu, select the Linux ISO file to write to the USB stick and let Ur' rip. Then you try booting the stick after Rufus has completed.
You may need to boot into Windows and disable Bitlocker. If Windows is not booting...
Windows 10 is usually setup to boot to the WinRE recovery partition after 3 failed boot attempts. Try booting to your recovery environment, you may have the option to do it from BIOS.

[QUOTE=Brains;6226254]Rufus can be installed in Windows or you can download the portable version which does not require installation. You fire it up, select your USB drive in the menu, select the Linux ISO file to write to the USB stick and let Ur' rip. Then you try booting the stick after Rufus has completed.

You may need to boot into Windows and disable Bitlocker. If Windows is not booting...
Windows 10 is usually setup to boot to the WinRE recovery partition after 3 failed boot attempts. Try booting to your recovery environment, you may have the option to do it from BIOS.

Thanks Brains. I cannot install anything with Windows since it was erase when I tried or I have install Unbuntu. I have no Windows and no access to install anything. I have put Rufus on a USB and I don't know why it doesn't up load on my computer. What do I have to do to make my computer upload something? If I have the option to boot from recovey environment in Bios, I didn't see it. But maybe I don't know where it is.

Thanks again Brains, the Bios version of my Asus T100TA is 313, the processor is Intel
(R) Atom (TM) CPU Z3740 @ 1.33GHZ Total memory 2048.

Hopefully you have options in the BIOS to deal with the BitLocker issue.
And flashing the firmware is not the first place to go..
Perhaps post the make and model of the computer, someone with similar or same unit can possibly help with BIOS settings and get the USB booted.

If what you are attempting to do is flash a BIOS upgrade to your PC, Rufus is not a normal way to get there. Rufus is mainly about making bootable USB devices using .iso files. You don't need the USB to be bootable. You need a USB formatted with a FAT filesystem and containing the file that provides the new BIOS code to be flashed. First you format the USB with FAT. Then you copy the BIOS upgrade file to the USB. Then you boot directly into BIOS setup The existing BIOS Easy Flash should find the file on the USB stick and then perform the flash if you have taken the required steps in the proper order.

Thanks mrmazda, I will try that. My objectif is to succeed in installing Ubuntu 20.10 My first try may have not work because I didn't do the step that you provided me.

Hi mrmazda,
The info that you gave me didn't work.
1-I have formatted with my Acer a USB with FAT 32 and
2-copy on the USB the Bios for my Asus T100TA file name: T100TAAS313.ZiP
3- I have extracted the file T100TAAS313 from the ZIP
4- I put the USB in the Asus port and
5- I started the Asus
6- the same message appeared : there is no Bitlocker recovery options on your PC
7- I push the windows button to access Aptio Setup Utiliy, which is the bios
8- I choosed Advanced and push Start Easy Flash
9- Which goes to initializing getting Flash information
10- Which present the Asustek Easy Flash Utility
The info that I have in this window is:
Flash type: Winbond 25x/Q series
2 block of information
First block with the Current Bios which give the information of Asus original Bios
Second block with New Bios: Platform : unknown
Version : unknown
Build Date: unknown
Build time : unknown
After I have 2 other blocks, first block, there is 3 names (FS0, FS1, FS2) of directories and the second block is the content of the directory.
FS0 content 0 EFI (DIR)
1 System Volume Information (DIR)
FS1 0 Extend (DIR)
1.
2 en-us
3 Faclog
4 OEM
5 Recovery
6 sources

8 Boot (DIR)
9 EFI (DIR)

I have tried all and nothing works. I must tell you that this happend after I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.01

It appears that the USB stick you used may be partitioned. I don't think such configuration satisfies Easy Flash requirements. What is the output fromwhen you are booted to Ubuntu or live Linux media and the USB containing the flash file is inserted?

Sorry I am not familiar with this code sudo fdisk -1. Where do I put it? I don't understand your second question, but here an possible answer: When I open my computer, the USB with Ubuntu in it was in the port of the computer.

While booted into Ubuntu's desktop, open a terminal to type it in. If you do instead it this way:there will be created a file named textfile.txt containing the ouput, which you might wish to copy to a familiar location from which to paste it here. Alternatively, also while booted to Ubuntu, you may key in Ctrl-Alt-F3, then login, then type it. Either way, another option might be which would upload the output to the internet, and provide you a URL to paste here instead of your pasting the output here directly.

Please use code tags when you post any type of command output of more than one line.

the hardware (Asus T100TA) utilizes 32 efi.

you will need to install a distro that supports 32bit EFI or modify the Ubuntu you have to install a 32bit efi bootloader.

thanks Mrmazda, I have read what you said about entering Sudo code, but unfortunately I am out of everything. the only access is to the Bios and I am not sure even by choosing USB in my Bios as the First Boot does anything. I don't see where I can enter any info in my Bios. I have no access to a dos space where I can enter any code. Thanks to help me.

Thanks Benmec for your help, I think you are right I need a bootloader but 32 efi is it not the same than FAT 32 and what is a distro! I have tried to install Ubuntu 20.04.01 but I am not sure I have succeeded because I have only the Bios that I can access, no more info than that. I am sorry, I am not at all familiar with what you said. If you can be more specific with the steps I have to take to get to a bootloader USB stick that will push info into the BIOS, it will really help me. or install Ubuntu or give me more options. Thanks
By the way, I have the Bitlocker key, but there is no where where the Bios ask for the key!

It's a bit unclear as to what you actually did!
Do you have Windows still available?
You say that you installed Ubuntu, or did you mean that you wanted to install Ubuntu?

The usual procedure would be

1 Download the Ubuntu iso file.
2 Install rufus in Windows and run it to transfer the Ubuntu media to a USB stick.
3. If you are going to keep Windows, use it's tools to defrag the disk and shrink the Windows partition to make space for Ubuntu.
3 Reboot the computer and enter BIOS configuration. Disable quickboot and choose the option to boot from the USB device rather than the hard disk.
4 Ubuntu will then run and can be installed.

So, how much of that got done?

Hi DavidMcCann, thanks for you respond. I had windows but I wanted to install Ubunty 20.04.01.
1- I copy from Linux site Ubuntu 20.04.01 on a USB and
2- put my USB to my Asus computer port and, I think, installed it in my Asus. I have install a lot of programs but maybe it is different with this situation. Everything seems to go well. Ubuntu seems to upload in my computer Asus.
3- When I shot it down and reopened the computer it went to a screen saying: there is no more Bitlockers options in you PC!!!
4- I did a search to find how I could unlock my computer and found a key to unlock my computer but there is no place were I can put this key. Do I copy it to a USB and stick it to the port and it will unlock!! I will try that maybe if it is possible, but i doubt it is possible. They said that there would be a window that will request it and I never saw it.
I have done everything you have mention above in your message and this lead me to the Bitlockers screen. The only thing I have access to is the Bios, but there is no place where I can enter a key or information of any kind.
Thanks

I have a very similar model T100TA-DK003H.

I dual boot it, I kept the windows OS.

Hi Benmec,
It is not that I eliminated Windows. Windows disappeared when I install Ubuntu 20.04.01

Do you remember where you found this?
It's possible you need to boot a WindowsPE and unlock it from within this running mini Windows.

There are some custome WinPE ISOs out there with a desktop and lots of Windows system tools to deal with Windows based issues. That's the road I'd be wandering down

For all intensive purposes, you can just download Windows 10 from Microsoft and install it to USB if you can find the right software, I used to do that with Windows 8.1. Use it for 30 days possibly.

"Windows disappeared when I install Ubuntu 20.04" Use Gparted/parted/disks to see what partitions exist.

Windows may still be there unless you erased it. It might be possible to fix the loader.

I think you have a 64 bit computer that has a goofy 32 bit uefi implementation.

Common scenarios are using the wrong install option which will overwrite windows. The other more common on newer computers is installing the 2 operating systems in different modes, UEFI/Legacy.

Thanks yancek, the only thing I have access now it the bios legacy and I think I cannot even put or install any information by the USB.
I have tried Easy Flash.
My Bios is set to USB Boot.
My security boot is disabled.
I have tried to boot with a USB a media creation for Windows.
The only think left, i think, is to put a EFI shell on a stick to see if it will boot it!

For all intents and purposes...

to boot to the USB.

insert your Live Ubuntu USB.
at turn on, press quickly the "esc" key as soon as the power light comes on (next to the camera).
you will get a text box with multiple options:

windows boot manager (if the efi boot manager still has the windows entry, mine does)
Ubuntu, if it has an efi boot manager entry.
UEFI: USB *something*. ..... choose this one to boot to the Live desktop.
enter setup.

otherwise
"enter setup": these are my settings:
(the BIOS is a UEFI only, no CSM or legacy options.)

under "advanced tab" is USB configuration set to USB controller select [XHCI]?
and Platform Trust Technology "fTPM" set to [Disabled]? this should get rid of the bitlocker issue.
under "security tab" is "secure boot menu", secure boot support set to [Disabled]?

save and exit; power off!
power up and press "esc" choose the USB option - you should be able to boot to the live desktop.
now you can use file manager to inspect any / all partitions and check to see if any windows files are there, or your new installed Ubuntu.

I dont know if Ubuntu supports 32bit EFI on the Live.iso, so you may have to download the 32 bit EFI boot file and install it manually.

edit: if no UEFI USB option is listed in the "esc" boot menu, the USB image has not been correctly created.

That never worked for me on any Asus. The only Asus boot device menu hotkey I'm aware of is F8.

I was using the Asus T100TA I have here to be absolutely sure all the steps :)

BTW, Mageia - I see in your distros list, works great on it.

Hi Benmec,
I am getting somewhere, thanks to your price guide. Now what I have is on the UEFI screen after the ESC is:
Lost of line of info and:
Warn: An NTFS service is already loaded
3 lines of info and:
Fail Could not locate efi boot bootia32.efi: (14) not found
I don't know if Ubuntu is the best favor to install for me. If you have advices, please. I will do a research with a 32 bit, i thought my CP was a 64!
Thank you very much. At least I am going somewhere!

In the bios, what does the "save and exit" tab have under "boot override"?

As I dual boot, mine has:
Windows Boot Manager
mageia

I do know that all of the Mageia 8.isos boot and install without issue, so you could try any one of those.
As previously noted, I dual boot, so my outcome may be different to yours.
Just remember, they are not Ubuntu or Debian clones, so if you are familiar with Ubuntu / Debian, there will be differences.

Hi Benmec,
Under Boot override I have
-Windows Boot Manager
-USB Entry for Windows to Go
-UEFI: SanDisk
-Lauch EFI Shell from filesystem device
I did a research and even if I have a 32bit CP I can install a 64bit because they are compatible.

Hmm, yet Ubuntu did not install, and it made the system unbootable, yes?

can you select this entry and does the system then boot?
Do you want to keep Windows?

this does not work for me!

This is a brief synopsis of how to fix, this is assuming the install was done in efi mode, not csm/legacy mode.
Either boot into you system from the live iso grub command line, or boot the live iso and chroot into your system, If using chroot, after chrooting into your system, mount the efi partition at /boot/efi if it isn't already mounted.
exit out of the chroot, unmount everything reboot.

To be able to give more detail instructions, go here and post the results https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info

Windows Boot manager always bring me back to Bitlocker recovery options missing window.
I will tried to install a 32bit to see what will happen and I don't want to keep Windows but I may have too. Who knows!

A 64 bit system is compatible with a 32 bit OS or a 64 bit OS.
A 32 bit system is compatible with a 32 bit OS but not compatible with a 64 bit OS.
The hardware determines what it will support.

the hardware has a 64bit cpu, it will run a 64bit system, it is the 32bit efi that is the catch.

as the hardware has 32bit efi, you need to either find a .iso that has 32bit EFI support out of the box or you will have to modify a 64bit EFI supporting .iso, as suggested by colorpurple21859.
not all 32bit .isos support 32bit EFI, and not all 32bit EFI hardware will accept a 64bit EFI install, as you have found.

I know that the current Mageia .isos work on this hardware without modification, both i586 and x86_64 variants.
This T100TA currently running Mageia 8 i586 multi DE setup (Gnome, Plasma, Xfce, LXDE, Mate, Cinnamon, IceWM, openbox) on GDM Wayland, with X11 available, and with SDDM, LXDM, XDM and LightDM display managers also available, but, if you install Mageia, you can set up with just the one Desktop Environment / display manager.

have a read here => https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ery-guide-plan

how did you shrink the windows partition to fit the Ubuntu system onto the eMMC drive?.
from within windows itself prior to the Ubuntu install attempt, or, by the Ubuntu installer or Gparted from the Live session?

Thanks Computersavvy and Benmec for your help. I guess I never install the Ubuntu, because I put it on a USB formatted with Rufus 3.13 and tried to install it on Asus and it didn't install at all. But I have install Debian 32bit on Asus and I can configure it up to now, but I am stop in the configuration at the hardware configuration. Debian doesn't have the driver to recognize my ethernet! But Asus doesn't have ethernet! it says that I need brcm/brcmfmac4324lb4-sdio.bin. And I will have to pay for that. If I don't succeed to put a driver to configure my communication system, I will not be able to go forward because the rest of the configuration goes with internet!

Hi Benmec,
I just went to this site:
https://ganino.com/installing_linux_...r_t100_t100taf
And I see that even with a lot of good intention, there is things that will not work with Ubuntu but probably also with Debian 10. So, i think I will go back to windows!

The T100TA I have, as previously mentioned, works pretty well on Mageia with any modification.
Just boot to the USB and either run the Live and install, or install from the Live boot menu, or install from the Classical.iso boot menu

The .isos have the required driver built in, no need to connect to ethernet to get the driver, touch screen too, as well as virtual keyboard if you use Gnome.

I just use the T100TA for browsing the web and email, playing videos or music.
It is a low spec machine, so I dont use it for video creation.


that looks like a lot of work.

Any particular reason you want/need Ubuntu / Debian?

anyway, good luck

No, I just wanted to install something else than Windows to get access to a word processor and an Excel type processor to do my accounting. I will try Mageia iso. I thought Mageia was just a boot loader!

Hi Benmec, I downloaded Mageia and I tried to copy it to usb but there is torrent at the end and not iso. Do you have the step by step to install it without all the bla bla bla? Thanks

if the file is about 31kb, then it is a torrent (seed) and you will need to use it to start the download in a torrent client: qbitTorrent, deluge, uTorrent etc.

If you do not have one, then you can download direct from the Mageia site => https://www.mageia.org/en-gb/downloads/.

choose the Live media, select which of the three desktops you want, then 32 or 64 bit. then "Direct Link"
the .isos are between 2.4Gb (Xfce 32) and 3.4Gb (Plasma 64) so you will need this empty space somewhere on your existing system.

then use Rufus to burn the .iso to usb (I read earlier that you have used this).

when you have booted into the Live, you can connect to the internet via Wifi - you will need to give the network password.
you may need run in a terminal the Mageia Live. install lets you partition the eMMC drive as you want, all or part. if you really want to be dispose of windows on this machine, choose "erase and use entire disk". the installer will create the all required partitions in a useful layout: /boot/EFI, /, /swap, and a /home partition.
otherwise, use the "custom" option and create your own layout, but you will need to make the /boot/EFI partiton ~300MB yourself.
at the end of the install, it will ask for a bootloader password. INGORE this, click the next or finish button.
when you reboot, it will ask to setup wifi, ignore this too, then set up a root/administer password and a user name and password.
after this it will then present your Desktop login, enter your new user name and password,
wifi should be up, if not, just run in a terminal again . this time you will need to enter your admin/root password to continue!

sorry for the terminal commands, there are 3 different desktops, and the internet connect GUI is located in different places and looks different too.

Very good Benmec! I am doing a verification of Mageia 8 i586.iso with md5. it takes for ever!

To repeat. The Intel atom bios's have a goofy 32bit/64bit loader issue. Well published on internet.

Thanks Jefro, I have taken note of this!

Hi Benmec,
Thank you very much for your help. it works. My computer is back and working fine with all the bells and weasels! And it was fairly easy to install and configure thanks to your recommendations! Have a nice day. Eric

cool.

do follow the Welcome program to familiarize yourself with setting up the on-line repos, and do play with the Mageia Control Centre settings to get the most of available packages and updates, and generally setting up your network, printers etc.


Cheers

Hi Benmec,
I am trying to connect to Internet. But I have no success with my T100TA. When I left you, I was good to go with my work, but now I want to connect to internet and it does not work. I have to enter a lot of info I am not sure about. IP address, etc. There is also some pupup request like: please insert the medium name Core Release (installer), Syslog-daemon package is not install, do you want to install it? Where is the Welcome program, I didnt see it.
Thanks again for your help.
Eric