[Bradford] ACER laptop fun

[Nick]

Hi,

Its far from a new laptop, its an Acer e5-573 from mid 2015.

Cheers,
Nick

On Sun, 2021-06-27 at 17:29 +0100, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> Hi Nick
> 
> Sounds like that is a new feature. I used Acer laptops for years and
> now have 
> a slightly old Acer all in one and the only problem I have ever had
> installing 
> Linux was that the all in one would only accept DVD installation
> media. 
> Otherwise everything has worked fine out of the box.
> 
> John
> 
> On Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:31:08 BST nick at ngrhodes.co.uk via Bradford
> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > Still lurking, though I've not used Linux on the desktop directly
> > for many
> > months, I've still been using daily via command line on remote
> > systems.
> > Anyhow, I inheritted an ACER laptop and decided to give LinuxMint a
> > try, I
> > was suprised to find after installing it would not boot, no sign of
> > grub
> > loading, gave Ubuntu and Debian a try, same issue. After a bit of
> > Googling
> > I discovered that ACER UEFI is rather Linux unfriendly and you need
> > to
> > manually point UEFI at your bootloader after install, does not
> > matter if
> > your using secureboot or not. How annoying !!! Once over that
> > hurdle
> > everything else worked out of the box.
> > One thing ACER does that is a nice little security feature is that
> > you have
> > to set a BIOS password to change the UEFI settings, which does
> > really help
> > secure things up a little bit more.
> > 
> > Cheers, Nick
> 
> 
>