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I have burnt Ubuntu 14.04 64bit using Unetbooting on a USB flash drive and tried several times to install Ubuntu on my new computer which has no software on it and Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 motherboard. It is a UEFI Dual BIOS and I guess the problem has something to do with UEFI.

It may also worth mentioning that the flash drive is formated to ext4.

The installer just hangs on Unetbootin blue page and does not proceed. I have also tried Ubuntu 12.04 but got the same resutls. Appreciate your help to resolve this.

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Needed F6 (BIOS boot) to set ACPI=Off and nomodeset, add to grub if UEFI boot.

Gigabyte UEFI boot issues - The partition size of the created USB Installer device needs to be under that of 4GB. Others found UEFI/BIOS update solved issue of 4GB FAT limit.

turns out the IOMMU needs to be enabled in the BIOS. This problems seems to be exclusive to Gigabyte boards.

Gigabyte Z97-HD3 Intel Z97 Motherboard

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gigabyte_z97_hd3&num=1

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