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I purchased a new Acer Aspire A315-56 laptop few days ago with Windows 10 preinstalled in that. Now I wanted to dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04 version.

I created the necessary USB bootable drive using Rufus using UEFI (non CSM) and GPT partition scheme [This is because the new laptop is using UEFI and GPT schemes after checking the Disk management and BIOS configurations]. I disabled Secureboot and Fastboot both before trying Ubuntu and tried installing Ubuntu.

So when I tried installation, it did not show up the 1 TB Hard drive for installation. It only showed up the USB pen drive which was used for the Live session and installation.

Also one thing which I noticed in the BIOS Information tab that SATA mode was "Optane without RAID". Now I don't know whether this is the one creating issues. I checked that I can change it to AHCI using Ctrl+S combination in the Main Tab of BIOS but I have read it in some responses that it can create problems in Windows 10 booting. So I did not go further doing that as laptop is in warranty period.

Hopefully, I don't need any backup data as its a new laptop. Also I have already created a USB Windows bootable disk for Windows 10 Home edition just in case something goes wrong during setting configurations.

Please help me to get the Ubuntu dual boot in this laptop. I have been using Ubuntu in my older Lenovo laptop with BIOS legacy mode enabled and all works fine there absolutely.

I am fan of Ubuntu and other Ubuntu based Linux distros also, hence I need this solution to use it on my new laptop. You can consider that I am desperate to install dual boot in the new laptop.

Thanks in advance. Regards.

Update as on 7-Aug-2020:

I did the following steps till now:

  1. Changed to AHCI mode successfully and booted Windows 10 normally with Secure boot off and Fast boot also off. That was good for me. (2) Again tried Live Ubuntu usb drive and before the Ubuntu Live environment there was an error on black screen something like "Certificate - 65" two lines of that. The screen flashed for a second and vanished and Ubuntu Live environment screen started. (3) I found a link where this error can be prevented by putting "nomodeset" instead of "quiet splash" while booting Ubuntu and then pressed F10. I did that also. Then the error went away in next booting with Live USB Ubuntu stick (4) Still the problem of not detecting the hard disk persists. Now I am exhausted out of options to install dual boot linux in this laptop. Can anybody really help me on this please. THANKS IN ADVANCE ALL OF YOU and especially @oldfred.

UPDATE - 28AUG2020: @oldfred Sir - I am also planning to buy a Dell Vostro 3590 laptop for me. But I also saw this link: <https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Not-able-to-set-SATA-operation-to-AHCI-in-BIOS-Inspiron-7490/td-p/7393794/page/2> There iS a problem in the post regarding AHCI option not there in BIOS of the Dell Inspiron laptop. And there is a big statement made by "U2CAMEB4ME" as below: "I think maybe Ubuntu needs to look into updating their software installation instead of depending on the computer manufacturers to accommodate 1% of their computer sales???". And there is another statement in this link that already HP and Lenovo do not have AHCI SATA option in their BIOS setup. This means that all major manufacturer's do not want Linux to be installed at all because AHCI will never be made available. And the guy "U2CAMEB4ME" is warning Linux community to do something about this, which is to plan for SATA RAID installation in quick time. Otherwise I am worried that Linux will never be available in newer laptops and new kids won't be able to see Linux in their lifetime. I respectfully request oldfred Sir and others who would see this post, if you are influential in Ubuntu Linux team, then please request them to seriously look into these aspects. Thanks in advance again.

SAT
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Its not really a solution more of a workaround, put the laptop to sleep and wake it back up and the SATA drive will appear.

If your kernel has the debugging enabled for power management, add test_suspend=mem and suspend.pm_test_delay=2 to the boot time options. Unfortunately, most kernels are released without them compiled in.

The main thing is after getting the OS installed, you have to wait for the kernel to start booting shut the lid or use the keyboard shortcut to put it to sleep wait a second wake it up and let the computer finish booting, or compile a custom kernel and enable the power management debugging and suspend test options in the config.

zx485
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Jeremiah Holt
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Install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on new Acer Aspire 3 A317-53 laptop computers

Read and experienced various frustrating problems of installing Ubuntu on PCs without AHCI setting (especially new PCs with SSD hard drives) myself before. I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on new Acer Aspire3 A317-53 laptop computers along side Windows 11 and surprisingly no issue at all throughout the installation process. Now I have dual boot for two such PCs successfully. Maybe 22.04 LTS is a solution by itself now. Hope this helps.

  1. The BIOS of Acer Aspire3 A317-53 laptop computer no longer allows you to have AHCI setting, no matter what you do (Booting Windows in safe mode, BIOS password, Ctrl+S, ets.)
  2. I did the following changes in the BIOS before configuring Windows 11 after I bought the PCs.
  3. Start up the PC and immediately press Fn+F2 to get into BIOS (not just F2, default is in special function mode).
  4. Go to Security menu and set supervisor password.
  5. Go to Main menu and press Ctrl+S to enable hidden setting (only adding VDM controller and touchpad options, nothing else). Enable F12 for boot menu option. Disable Fast Boot option. Change the Function key mode (so that I don’t need to press Fn key to use F2 or F12).
  6. Go to Boot menu. Disable Security Boot option. UEFI mode is already in default.
  7. Save the new setting and exit BIOS. Let the PC boot into Windows 11.
  8. Configure Windows 11 (this is where I tried the Window Safe Mode and change BIOS again only to find out no way to get to AHCI option).
  9. Use Windows Disk Manager to shrink the C-drive and open up 150GB unallocated space for Ubuntu installation. Reboot the PC to make sure Windows 11 runs normal. Shut down the PC.
  10. Download Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and make a boot up USB drive of it.
  11. Boot the PC and immediately press F12 key to go to boot menu. Select boot from the USB.
  12. Install Ubuntu 22.04, wifi automatically detected, hard drive and all partitions found.
  13. I select “Something else” in the installation type option. In the partition table I choose the free 150GB space previously opened up by Windows and create a new ext4 partition to give this space all to root(/) mount point. Accept all other installation settings.
  14. Installation completed successfully. Reboot and the dual-boot grub menu appears. Everything works well as expected!
Daniel
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I have same issue, with a doctor in computering we tried all, the only way was to change to another HDD.....

That laptop with that 1tb HDD and Linux do not work......

And if you change to another HDD, please set your BIOS properly, in secure boot something you must inform your BIOS to start from your debian(in my case)..... I think like shim64 or shrim64 something I forgot please forgive me about that, it's in EFI folder... I think grub64 option also there, total 4 options maybe....

Stéphane
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