Ubuntu USB drives working well on some Lenovo, HP, and Samsung devices but causing problems with others.
Ubuntu USB drives working well on some Lenovo, HP, and Samsung devices but causing problems with others.
I have 15 installers ready on Ubuntu from the official source. They are 64-bit versions built with Universal USB Installer. On HP laptops of decent quality, when I select my USB drive in the F9 boot menu and it processes it, it boots directly to the laptop's OS. The same happens with many Samsung devices. Most business-class Lenovo machines don’t block me—they just display a white cursor. All these devices successfully launch Windows 10 installers. Every Asus, Dell, Acer, Gateway and other brands I’ve tested work without problems. Secure boot is disabled on all of them. Any suggestions?
It won't do anything, says there is no boot media. Yes I'll try rufus, but I used UUI because I could set a persistance file. But that caused other issues. I made one drive and then cloned that one drive to 14 other drives, all at once
This suggests the system doesn't acknowledge the bootable drive for some unknown reason. Unfortunately, I can only say that, since starting from USB feels like magic, it's tough to explain further.
Rufus successfully started a boot process on a Dell system that didn't recognize the UUI file, encountering issues with a mismatched partition table or similar errors. Now I'm facing another problem.