Nitro 5 Boot Menu
Jenn Smotherman
Finally, GRUB 2 does not start by default. To enable ubuntu I have to perform a breakneck mission. DO I start the computer, quickly click F12 (boot menu), it opens and I see two (apparently) equal entries named "Windows Boot Manager" (see below)
When your computer is booting press whatever the bios option key is could be f11 or del couple of other options. There is often a way to adjust boot order. If your firmware gives you that option you should be able to move GRUB to the top position. Could also be called ubuntu instead of grub.
The safest way is to temporarily disconnect the Win10 boot drive and install Win11 on the second drive using Microsoft's Win11 USB media creation tool. After that, you can re-connect the Win10 drive and should be able to change to whatever Windows version you want as primary in the BIOS. Unlike Linux, trying to install Win11 alongside an active Win10 system drive or partition s has a higher risk of corrupting the Win10 system.
Do not try to change to Legacy mode or you risk corrupting the main boot drive. Instead open the BIOS menu MAIN tab. Make sure the F12 boot option is enabled. Then press F10 to save settings and exit. Insert alternate bootable media into a USB port. Turn the machine back on and immediately start tapping the F12 key. An F12 boot menu should appear to allow you to boot from the alternate booable media.
I have two NVME drives and one SATA drive and what I want to achieve is change the boot order in the BIOS. I don't want to have to press F12 every time to choose the boot order. As I said, I have only one option in the Boot section, and that's Windows Boot Manager.
There isn't an OS on the other drive, but I'd like to put a Linux distro on it and then use the Boot options when I want to use Linux. I don't want to use the dual boot method at startup, because Windows (10) will be what I mainly want to use.
This is normal for many newer UEFI BIOS which depend on the hidden EFI partition on the boot drives. Unlike the olden days, the Boot order often lists only boot loaders and sometimes the bootable devices upon which they are installed . So, for example, if you install Mint alongside Windows, the boot order might look something like this. This is essentially how mine looks. And after using Mint a few times, you'll probably keep the same boot order with Mint as the default and rarely have a need for booting Windows any more. ?
If you want to test drive Win11 safely, temporarily disconnect your Win10 & Linux installations before trying to install Win11 on the NVNE drive. In other words, don't try to do a triple booter before you've set up a dual booter or you might wind up with a no-booter.
So the weird thing is, the laptop recognizes the Flash drive in the "F12 Menu", but won't boot from it, even though I select it. It will just start Windows and show my login screen.Also, when I plug in a Win Installer on USB (Tried Win8), it is able to boot the installation menu without issues.(I also tried a Ubuntu14 bootable USB stick, but this didn't work neither. Even though, here it at least shows the common screen "Try Ubuntu"/ "Install Ubuntu", but then the screen stays black - won't do anything.)
Some background info:I have the laptop for 6 days (it was second hand from Amazon Warehouse). The moment I unpacked it, the originial Win10 was so slow (with all that extra programs that I don't need from Acer), so I spent two days trying to install Ubuntu. This finally worked by following these instructions:
Though to the fact that I need Dual Boot, I needed to have Windows installed first, so I installed Win8 (what I usually prefer over Win10). Installing it worked easily, but I then had issues with the drivers as Acer only provides them for Win10, and I couldn't find ones for my network and sound card, so I installed Windows 10 using the official Win10 ISO from Microsoft.
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Acer is one of the most famous brands of computers and other related products. Although it is widely used around the world, some of you may not know what is the Acer Boot Menu. This post on MiniTool will give useful information about the Acer boot menu including how to access and operate it. Besides, it introduces the process of recovering data from a dead computer with the cooperation of BIOS and MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
A lot of options are provided by the boot menu including system information, boot device options, BIOS setup, etc., which is the same as the Acer boot menu. All these options are utilized in handling problems that occur in special situations, like booting from USB/CD/DVD instead of the hard drive or needing to be fixed by changing settings in the boot menu.
Considering the importance of the boot menu, knowing how to access and operate it is required. But the Acer Boot Menu key is varied on your device. For Acer laptops, the most common hotkey to open the boot menu is F12. A few steps are present in the following content.
Secure Boot is a security feature included in Windows 8/10/11 to protect your computer from viruses and malicious software attacks. If Secure Boot is enabled, your computer will only run the signed software during the startup process; thus, those unauthorized programs are more difficult to run when the computer starts up.
Step 4: Click MiniTool Power Data Recovery in the MiniTool PE Loader interface to enter its main window. MiniTool Power Data Recovery can be opened whether your dead computer downloads this software or not.
Step 5: In the main interface of this software, you can select the target drive under the Local Devices tab and click the Scan button. Or you can alternate to the Devices tab to scan the whole disk at one time.
I got the PC to load up the BIOS which recognizes the hard drive is attached (it will show up on the informationpage of the BIOS), but it will not show up in the boot menu, nothing shows in the boot menu at all, no options to boot from USB either.
I attempted to run 3 different disk check programs on it but all 3 came back with errors that the disk is bad, I attempted to reformat it, partition it, and tried adding a drive letter to the drive but all attempts failed saying the disk is bad.
So I tried plugging 2 different working hard drives (freshly formatted) I have into the laptop (tried connecting both directly to the laptop and via USB), again it will recognize the hard drive in the BIOS (will list them on the information page but not on the boot menu page) but for some reason it will not allow me to boot off of the drives, still not giving the option to boot from USB as well.
I did use EaseUs Master Partitioner to make a bootable USB for Windows 10 iso file, perhaps i did it wrong, i will try again later tonight. With the new drive installed should it not at least show up in the boot menu as an option? Even though Windows has not been installed in it yet, I figured it would still be listed as an option to boot from even if it would fail.
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Ethernet - Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor - OK
Wireless - Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 - OK
Integrated GPU - Intel Corporation Device 191b (i915 driver) - OK
Dedicated GPU - ??? - ???
Bluetooth - ??? - ???
Audio - Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio - ALMOST
Video - blue frame, not scallable when playing mplayer
TouchPad - SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad - sometimes jumps cursor to corner of screen
Suspend / hibernate - suspend OK, hibernate?
External monitor
Installation from USB:
During acer boot keep pressing F2 - it will launch Boot Utility.
In [Main] tab select "F12 Boot Menu" to be [Enabled]. This allows us to select booting from USB device only for installation. By default it will always try to start from disk drive which is what we want.
In [Boot] menu choose "Boot Mode" to be [UEFI]. You can go with legacy but UEFI works just fine.
Plug in USB drive, Save Boot settings and reboot. Keep pressing F12 until you see "Boot Manager" menu.
Choose your USB drive (in my case it is USB HDD: General UDisk) and press Enter.
When we exit chroot, unmount all partitions and restart laptop without USB stick we will get "security error" -> "linux boot manager has been blocked by the current security policy"
Working solution described here( -Laptops-and-Netbooks/how-to-fix-window-boot-manager-has-been-blocked-by-the-current/td-p/268548) says:
Use F2 during boot to get into "Boot Menu". Set supervisor Password, this will allow us to change "Security Boot" in "Boot" Tab to [Disabled]. Now after restart we should see boot menu and then prompt.
Check `dmesg` output to verify you have the same version and driver doesn't report any errors.
I.e. for me it worked fine but was throwing errors that firmware-5.bin should be used but cannot be found.
I just renamed firmware-4.bin -> firmware-5.bin and there is no more errors(except specific board-pci-XXX.bin error -2 but it works)
Version I mentioned is just a fork of ( -firmware). Default version didn't work for me but it might work for you.
After that `ip a` should report interface 'wlp7s0'.
I use nm-applet and when I try to connect I automatically get rejected connection. Worry not, go to configuration, type password for your wi-fi network and connect again.
Issue here is that it cannot display popup asking for a password. No idea why.