Can't access UEFI with Acer Aspire Nitro Laptop
Basically I've tried everything, even systemctl reboot --firmware-setup and ujust bios. The option to go to UEFI when pressing F12 at the first Acer screen shows up but when it reboots it just stays at the Acer logo and nothing else, unless I power off the laptop. The same outcome is present with the first two commands I've already mentioned at the beginning of this text. Looking it up on the internet it says that maybe it's about the drive itself and Acer but I was wondering if there was at least another way to access it instead of physically disconnecting the drive and using something else
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why is it always acer with these random issues.
been a while since i had one but iirc you can try force it to enter the bios by removing the drives 🙃
but no guarantee, my last acer was from 2017 and i have sold it long ago as i barely used the laptop
So yeah, I need to open the laptop and screw the drive off, huh?
i ran into this problem once and i believe thats what i did
either that or i unplugged the bios battery but if you dualboot windows it can cause issues if it runs windows11 since it has tpm enforced by default
so make sure you have the bitlocker keys just in case
How about I install another Linux distribution instead? That should show up from the grub menu without going to the UEFI necessarily; are other Linux distributions suffering from the same issue? Like not being able to access the UEFI?
I just want to make a double boot with Windows 11 and Bazzite but I was reading the instructions from the site and it suggests to do it in a Windows installed laptop first
windows first then linux, unless its on separate drives
in which case you just yank out the drives windows is not supposed to be on
if you leave them in, windows will happily mess up the efi on other disks even if you tell it to not touch other disks
The thing is I've already installed Bazzite on this laptop but it's okay because it's an half "baked" one with a faulty Nvidia card so I'm using the integrated Intel one so it's not my main pc. It's just a machine I'm practicing Bazzite on before installing it on my main laptop, which it happens to be Acer as well, despite having a BIOS legacy setting, so no UEFi at all
yeah we wont support legacy bios
causes issues and performance problems
Oh really? Bummer
What kind of issues if I may ask? I'm scraping the surface with this, I'm pretty new to Linux distros
system might not boot because we dont support it for starters
0 testing, 0 validation on CSM because we dont run bazzite on computers from 32bit era
if you get it installed with it, its a ticking time bomb