Failure to Boot from Installation USB
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:33 pm
I recently bought a new Sony VAIO S. I've tried several times to install Linux Mint along side Windows 8. I can't seem to get the installation USB to successfully boot into Linux for the installation. The boot partially works. The computer will boot into the GRUB command line interface, but not into Linux itself.
Here's the pertinent information.
BIOS
InsydeH2O version R0081c8 ME version 8.1.0.1248
Boot mode: UEFI
Boot priority: Optical Drive, External Device, Internal HDD
Secure Boot: disabled
I created the boot USB from the Linux Mint 14 Nadia download. The downloaded ISO's checksum matched what was on the website. I used UNetbootin to create the bootable USB.
I can successfully boot into the installation Linux if I switch the boot mode to legacy, but I really want to use the UEFI method here. No sense living in the past for this.
I also downloaded Linux Mint 13 and Ubuntu 12.10 thinking there might be something wrong with the Nadia image. I have the exact same results when trying to install with those images. I also tried burning the images to DVD (correctly, not just writing the ISO file to the disc). Those boots failed as well. Booting from DVD gets me a black screen with "Operating system not found" displayed.
How do I get the installation Linux to boot? If not automatically, then what grub commands do I need to run for this to happen?
Here's the pertinent information.
BIOS
InsydeH2O version R0081c8 ME version 8.1.0.1248
Boot mode: UEFI
Boot priority: Optical Drive, External Device, Internal HDD
Secure Boot: disabled
I created the boot USB from the Linux Mint 14 Nadia download. The downloaded ISO's checksum matched what was on the website. I used UNetbootin to create the bootable USB.
I can successfully boot into the installation Linux if I switch the boot mode to legacy, but I really want to use the UEFI method here. No sense living in the past for this.
I also downloaded Linux Mint 13 and Ubuntu 12.10 thinking there might be something wrong with the Nadia image. I have the exact same results when trying to install with those images. I also tried burning the images to DVD (correctly, not just writing the ISO file to the disc). Those boots failed as well. Booting from DVD gets me a black screen with "Operating system not found" displayed.
How do I get the installation Linux to boot? If not automatically, then what grub commands do I need to run for this to happen?