Ubuntu 14.04 boot error on Windows 8.1 - SYSLINUX 4.07 EDD
- by nainai
I want to replace Windows 8.1 that came with my laptop with Ubuntu 14.04. I keep getting a black screen with this line: SYSLINUX 4.07 EDD 2013-07-25 Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
Things I did before:
turned off fast boot
disabled secure boot
switched to Legacy instead of UEFI (even though a tutorial I found said this isn't really needed anymore, I still did anyway because I read it from the laptop's user guide: "If you need to install a legacy operating system, such as Windows (that is, any operating system before Windows 8), Linux or Dos, etc on your computer, you must change the boot mode to Legacy support."
I chose to load from USB.
and then that SYSLINUX 4.77 EDD.... appears
I tried to install using the same USB on an old Lenovo S10-3. It worked. Though that S10-3 runs Lubuntu. Still it's probably safe to say that it's not the USB that has problems, right?
Thanks for any help. I can't wait to have Ubuntu :)
edit: This might be useful info. The USB is 16GB X-Stor Fat32. I used YUMI.