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Tinkerer
Tinkerer
Hi there!
A little background:
I bought an Aspire ES1-533-C4WF and faced the same problem. The workaround proposed here by Sladek90 and Pueseso was exactly what I needed. Unfortunately it did not go well. I think it can not work any more because the ESP (EFI System Partition) is damaged. Maybe it was damaged by my previous attempts, before I found this thread. One idea would be to try and fix it but this will take a lot of research. It would be easier to just format the whole disc (including the ESP) and install Ubuntu from scratch. I did not dare to do it yet because I have been warned that this could be dangerous and brick my new laptop. Maybe I am being silly but please bear in mind that this UEFI thing is new to me, I have been warned to be careful with it and frankly it has not been kind with me so far...
So my (double) question is:
1) Is it safe to format the whole disk, including the ESP, and install Ubuntu?
2) Can the Ubuntu installation process recreate the ESP?
Note that after the format I will still have to follow this thread's instructions, with "obiquity -b" and so on, and not a normal linux installation, but let's supose that I will do it right this time.
1) It is absolutely safe to format complete disk erasing also the ESP. I have done it at least 10 times during my attempts to install linux and finally the computer works well. ESP is in fact nothing special but usual disk partition.
2) The ESP can be recreated automatically from within the Ubuntu installer or you can do it manually by some partitioning tool as for instance Gparted. There are lots of guides on how to partition your hard drive for linux EFI installation across internet.
Wish you successful installation.
Tinkerer
I knew it! They got me scared for no reason. Thank you Sladek90! I will do it first thing in the morning.
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It worked perfectly, no need to change anything. Kudos to everyone who worked for it.
Tinkerer
> Ok, I will want a beer from everyone who got helped from my message:
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> Use Rufus to create a GPT/UEFI compatible USB drive from your Windows 8/10 ISO.
Won't work. Tried it already with VN7-793G. Bootloader doesn't seem to find any Windows 7 installation.
Tinkerer
Some distros are get freezes while installing or not able to install
Every times I got fail
Even I tried now
To install Ubuntu
Given steps above
But failed ........!
Any one tell the correct step to install Ubuntu or any distros
Or some one make YouTube videos
To install Linux distros like Ubuntu for Acer es1 533
Very difficult to install
Plz any one tell me the correct steps.....
Step by step process
Tinkerer
Tinkerer
Hey
Tell me how to downgrade my BIOS
For Acer es1 533
Am in 1.13 so I want to downgrade it
Let the process
Step by step to downgrade it.....
Acer Support Page to download the BIOS for Aspire ES1-533
grub-install --no-nvram --root-directory=/mnt
This error occures then:
grub-install: error: install device isn't specified
It seems I need to add a place on de harddrive? Could you help out?
I hope someone can help me out, untill now I have not found a solution yet.
Dont see MY usb boot HDD (win 7 64bit ) now; no boottable device mode
i was makig 4 days, very agry and unhhappy...
are you can help me? My world, Türkey / istanbul...
Original script: cp grubx64.efi bootx64.efi
Modified to: cp grubx64.efi BOOTX64.efi
Necessary because the CLI is case-sensitive.
On using the Ubuntu update manager for the first time, the system hung on an update of secureboot-db. It could only be unfrozen with a hard reset. From then on, I was prompted to enter 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' in terminal mode to fix the resultant mess, but that just froze the system again.
Re-installed 18.04.1, rebooted, installed Synaptic in Software Centre. In Synaptic I found the troublesome secureboot-db and manually excluded it from update. All other packages were updated succesfully.
Finally, I excluded secureboot-db from update in terminal mode by 'sudo apt-mark hold secureboot-db'.
The Ubuntu update manager did not freeze again.
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