Linux Mint on ACER Aspire ES 15, ES1-533-C2YP (+ boot and freeze fix) - Tutorial

in #linux • 4 years ago

It took me few weeks to get it done. Now, I will leave it here for me and other people that might be interested in.

Tested with Linux Mint 18.3, Sylvia, Cinnamon.

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  1. Create Linux ISO image on USB with Rufus. Choose default options. Don't change anything.

  2. Set BIOS:

    Main (tab)
    Network Boot: Disabled
    F12 Boot Menu: Disabled
    Wake on LAN: Disabled
    Touchpad: Advanced
    Lid Open Resume: Enabled
    D2D Recovery: Enabled
    GPT Partition Recovery: None
    Clear GPT Partition: None
    GPT Partition Record: No Record

    Security
    Supervisor Password is: Set (if not set, set it, you will change that later...)
    User Password is: Clear
    HDD Password is: Frozen
    Password on Boot: Disabled
    Secure Boot Mode: Standard
    Current TPM (TCM) State: Installed
    Change TPM (TCM) State: Enabled

    Boot
    Boot Mode: UEFI
    Secure Boot: Disabled

    Boot priority order:
    ATAPI CDROM: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUE1N
    HDD: KINGSTON RBU-SC152S37128GG3
    USB CDROM:
    USB FDD:
    USB HDD:
    Network Boot-IPv4:
    Network Boot-IPv6:

    Save BIOS settings and exit (F10, Right arrow, Enter).

  3. Plug in USB and reboot system. If you done everything correctly, you should see linux booting.

  4. When it boots and you see Linux Live (some distro name) desktop, then open terminal Ctrl + Alt + T, and confirm command ubiquity -b to run installation manually, but bypassing boot installer/loader which causes system freeze.

  5. I installed linux without internet connection and minimal addon or packages or features. With erase disk option. When linux is installed then click Continue testing (don't reboot, yet).

  6. Then do next steps in Terminal:

    sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
    sudo mkdir /mnt/boot/efi (if exists, ignore it, go to next step)
    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
    for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done

    sudo modprobe efivars
    sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64
    sudo grub-install --no-nvram --root-directory=/mnt

  7. Change root to /mnt

    sudo chroot /mnt
    sudo update-grub

    cd /boot/efi/EFI
    sudo cp -R ubuntu/* BOOT/
    cd BOOT
    sudo cp grubx64.efi bootx64.efi

  8. Reboot the system and go to BIOS (F2).

Change BIOS settings: Security (tab) > Set Supervisor Password to empty password or no password. In order to change password, type old password and for new password don't write anything and just Press Enter 2X (twice, for empty password I mean, no password). Save and exit BIOS. Remove USB if you didn't yet. Reboot the system.

DONE!

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