
Which means if you do get usb to boot the legacy/bios installer will run. It may be that Grub can not use the efi image that is on your usb due to how your hardware implements UEFI specification. Methodically go through all firmware settings to make sure all hardware settings are appropriately configured. It is safer to flash firmware out with Windows or how manufacturer describes at their website. If windows boots and works as expected (try mounting usb drive in windows to make sure system can see it) then you probably have no need to flash firmware. Never flash your firmware if there is no obvious reason to. Making sure usb is selected as bootable device in boot device order/priority settings. Here I am at loss as what could be the problem?Ĭheck that your firmware has not reloaded defaults. So there is some problem in my BIOS which is not able to detect my USB as a bootable device. The problem is that I don't see the USB in the BOOT menu, but I see the same USB in the boot menu of my WinXP. Update: 1) I can see the USB drive in windows normally 2) I can see it in BIOS and USB is in higher priority in the BOOT order. I have another age old laptop with WinXP, which detects the bootable USB, so that means there is some problem with my current Win8 PC.Īny help will be appreciated and set me on another journey to have Ubuntu live!!

I deliberately pressed "Esc + F9", but surprisingly my USB does not even appear in the Boot Menu. Now the problem is that my bootable USB with Ubuntu is not detected at all in the boot up seq. So I brought my PC to factory condition(only Win8) with a single partition and a Recovery partition.

When I got that working, I got "kernel panic" problem, so I decided to do everything clean once again since I did a lot of trial and error to arrive at the current situation. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Win8 successfully apart from the issue of RaLink 3290 not wireless not working. I started on a journey to dual boot my Win8 system with Ubuntu 12.04, but I have been hitting with one or the other problem.
