Hello I'm having trouble installing any distribution of Linux

[anon]

Hi I'm having issues booting any distribution I try on this little netbook I got from Aldi it boots installer but I cannot get past that the model number is e2228t
The name of the manufacture is medion

[bitsnpcs]

Hello anon,

are you trying to boot from a LIVE disk, LIVE USB, or trying to install it ?

It has UEFI boot and Bitlocker encryption - https://translate.google.co.uk/translate...rev=search

This is likely what is causing the problems installing Linux, you will need to await advanced users to help soon with this, as I have only done it once myself and had a lot of help from them to do so.
You can read how UEFI was solved here -
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta...ng-ll-3-2/

You have Intel HD graphics on it, "Cherry Trail", mine is Intel HD too, but "Skylake", this is what had to be done to get the graphics to work once Linux was installed, eg; installing Intel graphics stack -
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/video...tel-530hd/

It will be good if you can free it from the handcuffs of that.

[gold_finger]

Quote from blog posted by bitsnpcs:

Dual boat: rather not


Although strictly enough space on the SSD is to install a Linux operating system, I guess. On the one hand, Windows partitions have the tendency to fill constantly and almost imperceptibly, on the other hand there are hurdles in the BIOS / UEFI and in the encryption.


In the delivery state of the Akoya the drive C: is encrypted with Bitlocker. This means that the computer only starts correctly in "secure mode". When I turned off the "secure mode" in the UEFI and rebooted the computer, Windows immediately debugged problems with Bitlocker encryption. In addition, no "legacy mode" can be selected in the BIOS / UFI; But this is a prerequisite for successful installation for some Linux distributions. And not least, the Akoya did not want to start from my Linux installation stick. For all these reasons, I've left my fingers from the setup of a dual boot system, as hard as I can.

Overall it sounds like this model computer makes it extremely difficult (if not impossible) to run anything but Windows.  Linux Lite in particular requires being able to boot in Legacy mode, which according to blog author is not possible.  Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to help you get LL on this computer.  Two distros that might be able to install with secure boot are Ubuntu and OpenSuse.  If you have no luck with either of those I doubt any will work.


If dual-booting with Linux is important to you and your purchase was fairly recent, I'd return the computer and get a different one that is not so locked down to Windows.

[anon]

Thank you for your help it is running Windows 10 home so I don't think it has bitlocker and I'm trying to boot from a USB but I think I'm going to have to return it damn it was too good to be true for $300 but thank you to everyone has commented I hope you have a wonderful day or night

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[WytWun]

Hi I'm having issues booting any distribution I try on this little netbook I got from Aldi it boots installer but I cannot get past that the model number is e2228t
The name of the manufacture is medion

While there are ways to get some of the better Bay & Cherry Trail devices to run Linux, all of these devices are UEFI only and most require a 32bit UEFI boot loader (the exceptions seem to be those that come with 4GB of RAM standard).

I used info from Linuxium to get a Lenovo Ideapad 100s 11" netbook (2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC) with 32bit UEFI only boot support converted - both to get a version of Clonezilla running to back up the Windows installation and to install Xubuntu.  I ditched Windows completely.  Unfortunately I think the modified ISOs may have been taken down now that the ISO respin script has been published.  While I didn't use Lite on the Lenovo, I have since managed to get Lite 3.4 64bit installed on an Intel NUC in a UEFI boot configuration using the info in m654321's tutorial (also without Windows).  So some of these devices can run Lite with some effort.

Unfortunately there are an increasing number of cheaper machines which use less standardised hardware that only Windows drivers have been released for making shopping harder  > and brands like Medion and Unisurf tend to sell this sort of hardware.  However some of the better class devices are still available - I think that Asus, Lenovo, Acer and Dell currently have machines around the AU$300-400 mark that can be induced to run without Windows with some UEFI related effort.

[anon]

That is disappointing for me but thank you for replying now I know why doesn't work I wish more manufacturers would support Linux an give out Linux drivers

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[WytWun]

That you were able to boot an installer suggests it has a 64bit UEFI, but if you can't see the disk (e.g. eMMC) that's a problem.  The example I heard of was a Unisurf which was determined to have the eMMC drive connected via an SDIO channel (if I recall correctly); such a drive might be expected in the ARM architecture (e.g. RaspberryPi) but not in the x86 architecture so the x86 kernels don't support this.  It is possible if this sort of thing becomes more common that the necessary support could make its way into the x86 kernels, but until then such hardware is effectively unusable.

My suggestion would be to watch for machines that come with actual hard drives - these machines will have fairly standard SATA storage controllers and in nearly all cases you'll at least be able to replace the drive (preferably with an SSD) or remove it and do the installation via another machine if necessary.