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    • After a few attempts, my Acer SW3-016 still refuses to find a bootable device, why is this the case?

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    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      edited August 2021
      I can’t select it for some reason? Is there something I am supposed to do to disable it?
    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      For some reason I can’t select it? Is there something I am supposed to do to disable it?
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      You must enter the BIOS menu with the supervisor password.

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      I did for some reason though, I don’t understand why it isn’t allowing it to be selected
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      Did you perhaps set a user password instead of a supervisor password?

      "SUPERVISOR password for changes and should be grayed out if the USER password was used to enter setup."

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      I 100% Set the supervisor password. I don't know why this laptop seems to defy all the solutions...
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      Try to erase all secure boot settings option in Security tab.

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      Alright, ill do that

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      I think I made some progress, the secure boot mode changed from standard to custom when I reset the settings 
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      What options are available in custom?



      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer




      Here are some pictures 
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      Did you erase all secure boot settings yet?

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      Yep, doesn’t seem to do anything
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      Answer ✓
      We need to take a look at the emmc chip with a bootable gparted usb stick. Gparted is a parttion editor with a straightforward graphical interface that can handle both Win & Lin file systems. Go to this link to prepare it by one of the methods you're comfortable with. Then boot from it and post a screenshot of what graphical menu it boots into. Then we'll go from there. 

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      alright, I’ll do so now


    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      Gparted is sometimes included in the boot Linux distro  installation USB in the first screen that appears after booting from the USB.

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      Hm… Before i start, does enabling/disabling the BIOS option secure boot check disable secure boot? Or does it not do anhthing
    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      Also, the laptop isn’t booting into the GParted iso… I tried via the disks program and unetbootin, also dd command and the balena etcher program
    • ACE Posts: 45,230 Trailblazer
      Press and hold the power button to turn machine off. Turn it back on and immediately start tapping the F12 key for a menu to boot from the bootable USB stick. You want secure boot disabled if possible. If the button to change it says enabled, then it's already disabled.

      Jack E/NJ

    • Member Posts: 80

      Tinkerer
      Tapping F12 doesn’t seem to work… I don’t understand 

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