Acer Aspire won't run installed Mint
Computer Tech gave up on installing Mint on my Acer Aspire 5560 laptop running Windows7. He installed it, rebooted & got an Acer Protect msg. The computer would not boot Mint and He says Acer created this computer to run only Windows and there isn't anything more he can do, even wiping Windows off will not allow Mint to run. I am so disappointed had my heart set on running Linux Mint, am fed up with stuff like this. Is this true, am I doomed to running Windows the rest of my Acer's life? Has this happened to anyone else in the Linux world?
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What was the exact message that came across the screen after installing Mint?
If Linux Mint was installed properly the bootloader should of taken you to the log in screen. What is the exact model so I can look the the Acers specifications? It might be that your Acer has UEFI and all you'd need to do is go into the BIOS and disable the secure boot. <OR> it may be that there is a hidden partition that is associated with Windows so don't throw the towel in yet. |
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A pre-installed windows 7 would probably not be using UEFI although it's possible. You might take a look at the User Manual for the machine to see if you can find anything about booting from usb. |
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https://datacomp.sk/img.asp?attid=252571 http://www.cnet.com/products/acer-as...-gb-hdd/specs/ From what I can tell your Acer doesn't have UEFI BIOS- |
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Other folks that have installed Mint have had similar issue's- http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=176732 http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/842 Another alternative maybe try a different distribution. |
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linux /casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/ preseed/ubuntu.seed cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allo\ wed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid boot=casper quiet splash-- initrd /casper/initrd.lz I don't know what any of this means but I am trying to search out the answer. |
I think you need nomodset-
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Shoot. Posting from a UEFI Dell computer on a 32 bit operating system with a pae kernel to see all 8 gig of ram.
Just hit Legacy button in bios and let the free flag fly. F12 to boot from cd or usb. Off to the races. Code:
$ inxi -Fxz |
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If I'm not misktaken this message is referring to looking in the cd or dvd for a medium.
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:can't open/dev/sr0: Go in your BIOS and ensure that your boot priority is set to usb as the first choice. Since nomodset isn't working you may as well remove it from the kernel line. Installing the driver for your Radeon card might help. Which Radeon card do you have? Run lspci | grep -i VGA to find out-- This was the only article I could find with the Radeon Error no UMS Support. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166037 Here's confirmation that this type of behavior is lack of information being set to the Graphic's card. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen |
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Could it be that the kernel doesn't provide support for op radeon card and that's why nomodeset isn't helping? |
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