(old laptop) acer - install Linux failed won't boot no bootable found
 

Hi all,

so in my efforts to get a Linux machine I came across an acer 11" laptop which I didn't have to fork out for which is fantastic yay.

I had to put a hard drive in the computer which I formatted to MS-DOS with a cable in Mac OS disk manager.

Then I put the drive in the acer laptop and booted in with a USB with a Linux distro Deepin which started and I went though the installation process.

It came up to install in a drive I choose the Hard Drive and installed it, the final process the computer restarted and said No Boot disk found.

I did a google around around and looked into bios though my bios there is things the system won't let me change which is weird. I changed the setting to boot from the hard disk but no joy.

Im really stuck its very stressful, it doesn't seem to want to install on the drive yet it looks like it went through the process.

chels

All I can think of. Did you install grub/bootloader to mbr or just / <root> of the drive and does bios see and recognize in a menu a number and maybe name of that drive. Then boot from it?

Got a model number and review link for this said 11 inch Acer netbook?

Also wondering if you installed this MSDOS drive in a just a drive plug, or bootable iede/sata plug?


I had a Acer ZG5 netbook. It's quirk it would not boot off the SD card slot, a Acer bios limitation on that model.
You had to boot off the usb ports instead.

You have to install grub to the MBR. Just boot with the install disk, choose advanced, choose rescue, reinstall the boot loader to /dev/sda. Also, when you make a change to the system BIOS, you must save the change for it to take effect.

Hi thanks,

the model number is aspire V 11 Touch - V3-112P-C2QQ

I reinstalled the operating system to the hard drive and it formats the hard drive in the Acer tho it still didn’t work, it will boot from the USB and install Linux. The bios in the Acer seems to be limited and won’t let me change settings. I tried it on legacy and UEFI both gave the same problems.

It just doesn’t seem to work it’s like Acer have given a bios version that’s tiny and I can’t even fix it.

Chels

Given that you initially set the disk up on a Mac, it may need to be wiped and a new installation from scratch performed before a bootloader that the laptop BIOS can understand can be configured. Try running bootinfoscript and upload it so we can take a look at what you have.

Hi,thanks for helping out. I did format the drive with the apple as it is my only computer I have that was working :) When I installed Linux to the drive I did however reformat the drive while installing the software.

I just went to the link and put the command in the terminal (im still new to terminal Imnot sure of the commands yet) here is what I got when I enter the info

chelsea@chelsea-PC:~$ sudo ./bootinfoscript
[sudo] password for chelsea:
sudo: ./bootinfoscript: command not found
chelsea@chelsea-PC:~$ sudo ./bootinfoscript <outputfile>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
chelsea@chelsea-PC:~$

I like the way linux works tho currently loving the software and the Deepin operating system is very nice simple and looks great.

thanks :)

Did you download the script from the URL provided before trying to run it?

Hi, Im a little confused to how to run this on the system, first day with the terminal. I went to the web page and download some files but wasn't sure what I should do with them

thanks again chels

I download the .zip from that URL, extract the bootinfoscript script file from the .zip into the current directory, then as root, do without getting any error messages.

hi thanks again,

I did it again and it did something :)

chelsea@chelsea-PC:~/Downloads/bootinfoscript-master$ sudo ./bootinfoscript
[sudo] password for chelsea:

Boot Info Script 0.77 [10 June 2018]

Identifying MBRs...
Computing Partition Table of /dev/sda...
Searching sda1 for information...
Searching sda2 for information...

Finished. The results are in the file "RESULTS.txt"
located in "/home/chelsea/Downloads/bootinfoscript-master/".


thanks again chels :)

Did you bother to read the messages produced ?.

Hi,yep but I don't understand the terminal yet this is basically my first time with Linux. I'm trying to learn how all this stuff, I basically came from windows with some DOS knowledge and then Mac OS for the last three years.

Hopefully I can learn Linux cause I really want to learn :)

You need to post the output of the RESULTS.txt file here so that members can see it and hopefully give you some instructions on what to do to resolve the problem.

If you have a newer Acer which originally came with windows 8 or 10, you will need to set a "trust" option in the BIOS before you can install/boot another OS. Check your user manual if you have one or try looking for the manual for your specific Acer online.