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I have a cheap $300 Acer E1 series laptop with UEFI and Windows 8. Btw, the only "BIOS" in the boot menu is UEFI. I want to wipe windows 8 COMPLETELY off the hdd and replace it with Ubuntu or Fedora. I'll try Ubuntu first even though I heard that Fedora has better support for all that UEFI junk. I wrote the 64 bit ubuntu ISO to USB (made with unetbootin) and DVD so that I could install it on my laptop.

First, I disabled the UEFI. When I boot with a live USB or DVD of Ubuntu, I get a black screen with 3 options - Install, Try, Check something. When I choose install, I get a black screen. It stays there forever. How do I even know that I can install ubuntu on this system? This laptop does not come with a dvd/cd drive. I am using an external. Doesn't matter. I returned it all.

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Btw, the only "BIOS" in the boot menu is UEFI.

Are you absolutly sure that you can not change the bootmode in your Acer E1 Series BIOS ? I am asking you that because i bought an Acer E1-530 too, and i have a BIOS on it where im able to switch bootmode from UEFI to standard. So you may want to doublecheck on this and saving time and money.

Did you try to press F2 or DEL while Booting ?

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This not much of an answer - I fail and I give up. I am returning my laptop. I'll pay more and get some system where it will be easy to install linux.

There are a so many tutorials on this and not one has helped me. Reminds me of the 2 days I spent in getting wifi to work in ubuntu 11, on a expensive laptop with mainstream hardware.

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