[vox-tech] Ubuntu 16.04 install issue

[Bruce Wolk]

I haven't burned a disc in years.  I decided to try another distribution 
so I put Xubuntu 15.10 on a flash drive and it booted into the desktop 
without any issues, so it seems there must be something different about 
Ubuntu 16.04.

On 04/21/2016 07:54 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 04/21/2016 07:39 AM, Bruce Wolk wrote:
>> I recently built a new Skylake based computer and installed Windows 10
>> intending to dual-boot with linux.  This morning I downloaded the just
>> released Ubuntu 16.04 distribution and installed it to USB flash drive.
>> When I boot to the USB drive I get the grub screen, but when I select
>> the try ubuntu option the Ubuntu desktop background appears and then
>> several error windows begin quickly flashing in an unreadable fashion,
>> making it impossible to proceed. I created the USB boot drive using two
>> different methods and the result was the same.  The md5sum is correct.
>> Any suggestions?
> I'm wondering if it required a signed kernel for secure boot. I did have
> a friend recently who couldn't get his new laptop to boot a usb
> installer, but instead needed to use an external DVD drive. I forget
> what the bug was but he said it was hardware related, and known on his
> particular Lenovo system. Do you have a DVD drive to try with?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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