Hello
I'm rebuilding an Aspire E5-523 with a SSD and Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 and I note that this is a good way of re-purposing older laptops which is environmentally sound. I have now wasted over 3 days on this job...
There appears to be no shortage of complaints about flaky EFI booting to a grub bootloader yet the issue remains unresolved and undocumented (by way of a cogent application note). Judging by the level of spoken unhappiness I think it is time that Acer looked to sorting this one out. Comments such as "Acer only supports Windows" don't wash because the Linux community is so large and it is apparent that this is a Linux-OS-independent problem.
In this instance I was trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 which loads but never boots (with the standard "no bootable media installed" mssage). I naievely thought that trying Ubuntu 22.04 might fix that but no.
Please can we have:
1 A schedule of what the BIOS is expecting to see on the first (efi) boot volume
2.A cheatsheet on how to make this happen for a variety of distros (minimum Ubuntu) specifically to bodge the existing files on the live boot memory stick and first permanent volume efi boot partition;
3. Fully laid out instructions; and
4. Acer to fix the flaky BIOS's
Thanks.
(Thread was edited to add model name to the title)