Cannot Dual boot with Ubuntu 17. 04 64bits on ACER GX-785-EB11 to do nvidia SDK dev

lavrod
lavrod Member Posts: 1 New User
edited March 2023 in 2017 Archives

In order to use some of the nvidia SDK Developpment kit (ex. Deep Learning DIGITS) it's required to install Linux.
To much performance penalities with a VirtualBox and cannot access some functionalities.
Seems that Graphics Card nvidia GTX-1060 work only under EUFI so cannot set boot to Legacy.
 
Cannot boot into linux after successfull installing it, always boot Windows 10 or show error that cannot cannot boot the media ask to check bios

Here my procedure:
In Windows
Downloaded Ubuntu 17.04 64bits
Plugged an 16GB USB flash drive formatted FAT32
Created USB Flash linux image with Win32  Disk Imager
Disabled fast boot and intel rapid technology
Reduced SSD Win partition with Disk Management
Rebooted

Pressed Del to enter BIOS
Set the BIOS BOOT password
Disabled Secure Boot.
Changed boot order to have USB flash first
 Save & Exit

Succesfully Boot Linux with USB flash
(cannot be used has an dev environment because we cannot save or change system, kernel, or set proprio nvidia driver)
Performed install on freed partition has ext4 on SSD
Did not restart after install
Opened an terminal
Installed efibootmgr with
sudo apt-get install efibootmgr
displayed order with:
sudo efibootmgr
changed order of boot with:
sudo efibootmgr -o 3,0,1,2
rebooted

Tried in Win to hold shift key will rebooting to see and play with availables options
Tried Legacy only in BIOS
Tried to install linux on second drive HDD

Did not try TPM.
Tried, tried and tired now.

 

 

Answers

  • doughjohn
    doughjohn Member Posts: 353 Mr. Fixit WiFi Icon

    Hi

     

    My personal view...

     

    Acer BIOS choice makes this kind of a nightmare, Ubuntu 17.04 compounds the problems.

     

    While using a HP is not viable, something decent like Debian 9.x or better still openSUSE 42.3.

     

    OK;  Secure boot should be possible with Ubuntu (certainly is with SUSE) and the bit it needs is shim.efi and MOK Manager (rodsbooks  dot  com  /  efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html) and should be included or downloadable for your distro.

     

    askUbuntu answers:-

    "Typically, EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi on the EFI System Partition (ESP) is the GRUB binary, and EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi is the binary for shim. The latter is a relatively simple program that provides a way to boot on a computer with Secure Boot active."