(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