How to install Ubuntu 12.04 to EEE PC 1225B?

Question

How to install Ubuntu 12.04 to EEE PC 1225B?

I tried to install from USB Flash and USB CD - Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mint. Installation is going well, but after installing the OS will not boot.

Hardware Specs

Solution 1

My 1225B was delivered with win7 preinstalled. Windows 7 did not boot via UEFI so to be able to install ubuntu side-by-side with the existing os I forced ubuntu into installing in legacy (non uefi) mode. Grub seem to detect that the computer supports uefi but does not understand why the efi partition is missing. (because uefi it is not used)

The easiest way to install without using uefi is to remove the efi folder from the installation medium. It works on both ubuntu and windows 7.

Solution 2

No need to use Sardu, you can use the tool that comes with ubuntu to create your boot usb. However, the Ubuntu version that creates this boot usb must be equal or probably greater than the usb version you are trying to create.

I tried creating a boot usb with Ubuntu 10.10 from a 12.04 iso, got the same error.

After doing the same process with 12.04 got a successful boot usb.

Comments

[mikewhatever]

Oleg. I've added the specs to the question. Please check the link to verify they are correct.

[oleg]

Thanks for the advice. To create a bootable USB flash, I used unetbootin-www.acerfans.ru.exe and ubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.iso Excellent have been booted from bootable USB flash and installed on the HDD, but when rebooting can not boot from HDD

[Eliah Kagan]

On 64-bit systems, if you want to prevent the installation medium from being UEFI-bootable (for systems where UEFI is broken, since if it really doesn't have it, it should just fallback to normal BIOS booting), you can also use the "Mac" images.

[John S Gruber]

Helpful answer, thanks. Could you mention the name of the tool for the convenience of those referring to your answer?