Acer Laptop Windows 7 Installation

[Kenya Ahyet]

Iam having problems installing the Ubuntu on my device. My Acer Aspire 3 A315-23-R4B9 laptop apparently has problems with support for Linux systems, but I hope that this can be fixed. When starting from the USB drive, Ubuntu always hangs on the Splash boot screen.

I disabled all possible items in the BIOS, tried different ISO images, but all to no avail. The Ubuntu installation comes to boot and freezes on the Acer splash screen. I think that the problem is in the drivers that are not in the Ubuntu kernel for my hardware.

Ok guys, I have good news (or not). I just decided to boot with the ssd drive of my laptop disabled, namely in the Advanced tab in the BIOS, in the Storage Device Configuration I disabled HDD1 and Live USB Ubuntu booted without problems, I checked all the functions and absolutely all the sound works, adjusting the brightness of the screen keyboard touchpad and etc. no errors, everything is in order with the drivers. It turns out it's only about my SSD, but when it is disabled in the BIOS, I certainly cannot install anything and this is a problem that I did not solve.

I bought A315-23 laptop a few days back, and stumbled upon the same problem. Long story short, solution is to set nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5500 kernel option at boot. Then installation works out-of-box. After installing the same option needs to be added to grub (edit /etc/default/grub followed with update-grub).

Longer story, how I found solution: As described, we both can initiate a boot but a hang happens along the way. I had little hope the problem being connected to UEFI, still tried to play a little with fast-boot and secure-boot options without success. Given Egor reported system boots correctly after disabling SSD (which was an excellent hint), I tried to follow this path. The laptop has WD 2018/PC SN520 NVMe SSD. I found a suggestion how to fix the problem at -support-for-wd-black-nvme-2018/225446/7.

Acer machines appear to all have boot code which automatically looks for a Windows boot directory. I've found you can fool them into thinking they're running Windows, whereas they're actually running Ubuntu simply by a directory copy & one file rename.

Boot from installation USB & install Ubuntu (given choices I prefer to scrub the whole of the hard drive and do minimal install). At this point you'll probably find you get boot fails if you try to re-boot from hard drive

Warning: You may need to run through steps 3) & 4) again if the boot directory changes in the future, but this can be done without loss of data or any need to re-install Ubuntu. This happened to me once in last 4 years.

In some laptops I found problems booting with USB 3, and I had to use USB 2.0.In some others, I had problems booting with all USB sticks but I had not problems booting from a USB DVD player/recorder, so that's the last resource, to toast one DVD with the ISO and boot from an external USB DVD drive.

Also the last line of your screenshot said that the job have been running for 14 seconds of a max of 3 minutes. Can you provide a screenshot of the final outcome, after having waited at least 5 minutes?.

Remove the drives from those machines. Place your target drive in the non-problematic machine and complete your install (without secure boot or any type of security). Put it back in your troublesome laptop and boot it up.

Caveat.... Now, I will say... my experience(with that UEFI) when I WAS able to install in legacy mode, the install finished, but the boot problems were plentiful... So I worked until I figured out the nuances of the UEFI(like i mentioned in the comments)... So their may be a chance that even when you get your drive installed and working on the other machine, you may very well have the same issue of being able to boot.

I wish I could offer more, but without seeing all the options on your UEFI and how they react with each other, it's hard to say which way to go. There seem to be a lot of googling of "insydeh20 no legacy boot" with mixed results... I'd still try some of those solutions first. They may lead you to the proper answer.... But, anytime I have been defeated by UEFI/BIOS/LEGACY/SECURE/ETC problems, I have had success doing the solution that I suggested above.

I noticed on your security screen that "Secure Boot" was still enabled, although you said you disabled it. Some BIOS have a constraint that "Secure Boot" cannot be disabled unless the supervisor password is set.

Therefore, you could try setting the supervisor password and then disable secure boot. If it still doesn't work, check that the secure boot is still disabled. If it isn't disabled, try "Erase all secure boot setting" and disable secure boot again. (You can always reset the default secure boot settings, so the action shouldn't be irrevocable.)

i think i had same problem too, it may be about you system support only efi boot, or legacy boot, and you try to boot legacy on a efi.try booting in efi mode, changing the bios boot to efi and disable legacy mode. if that dont work try to enable legacy mode, and boot without efi..

Firstly please get a udev log by editing the line in your grub config. During boot up grub would allow you to edit the boot command (probably with Tab). Add udev.log_priority=debug to boot config and boot using the key displayed. (Usually enter if not displayed. Else try c).

Hi! I'm trying to install Zorin OS Lite on an old grandma laptop (Acer ES 11), I followed the guide and managed to install it on the drive, however I can't boot on it as only a "No bootable device" screen appears.

After some googling, I found a few people having similar problems. The fix seems to be to tinker with the UEFI settings in the bios Security menu, but I can't find any UEFI settings (probably because the laptop is too old).

GDay @morceaudebois , Welcome to the community!

Some older pc's have "Minimal" boot instead of " Fast boot"

How did you create the usb drive?

What program did you use?

Are you using the 32 or 64bit Zorin Lite?

In your BIOS setup, make sure it's booting from the correct drive... I had a similar problem, I attempted to install Zorin OS over the top of a Windows installation, hoping it'd wipe Windows off and boot Zorin OS... but the UEFI (which is what they call the BIOS now) held on tight to Windows, wouldn't let me choose 'Ubuntu' (which is what my UEFI lists Zorin OS as) as the default boot until I'd zero'd the drive to wipe Windows off of it, so it kept giving me the error about not finding a boot device.

The BIOS is on version 1.08. The latest version is 1.26, so it seems really out of date and I suppose it might fix the issue. However I can't install it since it comes as a .exe on the Acer website and I don't have a Windows install on the laptop anymore.

I found this old post with people having similar problems with that line of laptop and other distros. It seems to be a pretty big rabbit hole specific to these laptops I'm not sure I want to get myself into. I'm considering just reinstalling Windows 10 and hope for the best

I have an Acer Aspire V3-371 Series laptop here and it can't boot as it cannot find any Bootable device. I originally tried to reinstall Windows, that didn't work. So I tested the original HDD. It was defect to some degree. So I changed it out for a new one and installed Windows again. The PC worked! But just for a week or so before the exact same problem occurred again... Now I'm out of ideas what it could be.

It sounds like there is a defect in your power supply that is damaging your hard drive. Can you test your other components and see where the problem is coming from. Have you tried posting your question on the official Acer support forums:

@lukecetion, what do you mean the original HDD was "defect to some degree"? Have you run a recovery disc like Hirens has hard drive diagnostic tools, master boot record tools, antivirus software, etc.

In most cases, the issue of no bootable could get caused by the USB devices that you are using. So, the best way to deal with the issue is by disconnecting all the in-use USB peripherals. Also, you need to make sure that you plug out your USB keyboard and mouse as well to get rid of the problem.

Moreover, the problem of no bootable device can also get caused by loose cables. So, you need to get the computer sure that you have the wires of your computer tightened when you are dealing with the problem. The first thing you can do is turning off your computer and then checking all the SATA cables and their connection with the hard drive and the motherboard.

When restarting hit whatever f (function) button to get to setup start up screen, arrow right to the last screen and change windows boot to LEGACY. Windows 8 and above warning blah blah then save and restart. Got me back to my original sdd/operating programs so I could flash with a more updated Bios firmware.

hiiii my laptop has no bootable device but cannot manage to switch on,does a loud beep when connecting charging cable, flashes a rectangular image after i keep the on/off key on,i am desperate indeed last time it happened i just forced it to shut down and it worked but now it has been more than 2 hours and it s not coming back to life can someone help pls,thank u so much i am using it for work

Been there done that, sometimes when my bettery runs out and the pc shuts down the bios changes the boot option from legacy bios to uefi, but you can go to bios and change it back, it goes both ways, it depends in which of them you have installed the windows because the type of format they use for the hard drive is different..

Is the SATA cable properly inserted? If there are no clicking sounds coming from the HDD, that could be the problem. Otherwise, if you have an SSD , clicking noises are a horrible sign (I think) , and something is definitely wrong with it.

I had no problems with the installation, and everything was smooth as butter. When the installation was completed, I rebooted my device to start using EndevourOS, but when the laptop starts booting, I got a message saying that there is no bootable device.

3a8082e126