Power on the system and begin tapping the F2 Reloading Windows with the Media Creation To create a bootable USB drive and boot the device.įile of your edition from microsoft and use Rufus to create a bootable USBĭrive and install the OS, Windows will install most of the drivers, if you needĪny drivers, you can download them from Acer support site. To make it bootable what should be done tell me this please (13) If desired, put grub圆4.efi ahead of Windows boot manager in UEFI bootstrapperīut I have done what you said but it didn't booted from us neither from DVD. Enter grub圆4.efi in the space provided if selecting it doesn't automatically enter it. Select HDD0, SSD0 or eMMC0, then, then, then grub圆4.efi the UEFI file. (10) Re-enable secure boot(BOOT) & select UEFI file as trusted(MAIN). Adjust for more or less space only if absolutely necessary. ( 7) Let Linux automatically set & resize partitions for Linux & its swap. ( 6) Follow on-screen instructions to install alongside Windows. ( 5) Preferrably select a default Linux install option ( 4) Turn back on while immediately tapping F12. ( 3) Shutdown & insert bootable Linux stick May not be needed with some Linux installations like Mint.
( 2) Set BIOS supervisor password(SECURITY), disable secure boot(BOOT)& enable F12 Windows boot mgr (MAIN). ( 1) Make bootable GPT/FAT32(default) stick from the Linux installation iso with Rufus, a freeware download. ( 0) Pre-shrink Windows partition to desired unallocated space for Linux installation. Depending on your distribution, try re-installing by following the steps below as closely as you can for this ubuntu dual boot installation.
Sometimes you have to actually enter the linux efi filename from the keyboard into the UEFI bootstrapper trusted section, not just select it.