I have the startup disk created on my main MATE station and I have the new laptop set to boot from USB/CD as first device. System is UEFI w/ Secure-boot enabled. Yet the laptop still boots straight into windows. Any advice would be appreciated. Maybe something to do with secure boot? My main pc has UEFI but I don't think it has secure boot.
The new PC has UEFI ans secure boot enabled, I tried that way, and tried No UEFI, and one with UEFI and no secure boot. The one w/o UEFI just sent me back into BIOS. I even tried Legacy boot, but that just looped. Thinking it may be the startup USB stick I created a new one, same issues.
2 Likes
It was a bad startup disk
5 Likes
Well done for solving...
( I seem to have about 5-7% of my ISO writes to media fail; regardless of what device I use for the writing too, so I'm always doing a diff/comparison after ISO write to thumb-drive )
2 Likes
with no issues at all I am happy to say!
4 Likes
I guess I have been lucky so far for last 10 years and installing first Ubuntu then Ubuntu MATE and it has always installed and performed with no problems. Before or after install, unless caused by me directly, LOL. This new laptop I have has a NVIDIA graphics card and I was prepared to dig for drivers, but the default (I suppose nouveau) is working perfectly. I am not a gamer, but this laptop was optimized for Windows gaming. Its an MSI GF63, with 32 GB RAM, i5 CPU. I bought it used. Got it for a fantastic price and its like brand new. Previous owner said he used it for 2 years w/o issue. And of course the first thing I did was blow away Windows and install Ubuntu MATE.
2 Likes