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Adam Goldman
Asked: 2016-08-10 07:08:35 +0800 CST

16.04 not bootable - fresh laptop, no preinstalled OS

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Laptop: acer, Aspire V 13 V3-372-57M8

Notes:

  1. I'm able to load ubuntu from flash disk (which is how I am writing this post)
  2. holding shift after reboot wont bring up the grub menu
  3. Using boot repair didnt help, here is the log. Note the "No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda."
    In some online resources I read it is not an issue with new systems.
  4. adding "boot" flag to /dev/sda2 didn't work (file system ext4, see screenshot)
  5. I'm trying to boot in UEFI mode

gparted

I tried for a couple of hours to get this to work, no luck so far ...

boot

1 Answers

  1. I'm on an Acer Aspire and I've been facing similar issues. Tried boot-repair, manually updating and reinstalling grub, turning secure boot off with no success.

    You have to select the grubx64 uefi file as trusted from BIOS. Detailed instructions can be found here - https://askubuntu.com/a/630662/237187

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