Ubuntu 12.04 won't boot on Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A (ssd hard-drive)

Question

I've recently bought the Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A I boot the live usb ubuntu 12.04 and format the ssd drive. I then created 2 partitions: 28GB for / and 100GB for /home

After install I reboot the laptop. It seams that on boot the screen blicks and restarts again. I've also made the regular Ubuntu 12.04 install without any luck.

Any idea?

Solution 1

Look wether it could depend on uefi.

I just got this fixed for myself by disabling uefi explicitly in bios. I'm pretty sure that this could help you.

Good luck!

Solution 2

Not sure if you were able to resolve your issue, but I ran into an similar issue and was able to resolve by disabling Fast BIOS Mode to allow boot from USB to do a boot recovery.

Solution 3

It looks like you are missing a pointer in grub2 that tells the pc to load the ubuntu 12.04 you put onto your Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A, or missing a grub2 install completely. I run into the same problem when installing ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, and 12.04 on my Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A. I used the following sites to help me install grub from the USB-live drive which was used to install ubuntu in the first place:

Grub2 man Grub2 Repair

Comments

[Admin]

Are you booting with the USB drive in? I believe Ubuntu 12.04 for some odd reason installs GRUB to the USB drive by default. It might be that the computer can't find the bootloader on the HDD.

[Muhammad Murtaza Ali]

While partitioning, did you select your master drive in "Device for boot loader Installation"?