2013-01-18, 10:37
Hello everybody,
I recently bought a new ASUS-Laptop k55v-series. He came with a windows 8 on it. I thought that i keep windows8 for a while for test purposes.
Anyway, now i want to install XBMCUbuntu besides windows 8, so i downloaded the XBMCUbuntu iso and made with unetbootin a bootable USB-Stick. I put it in my laptop but my laptop doesn't detect it as a bootable device. After a long google search i found out that i need some kind of a bootloader (.EFI-File) that my laptop detects the USB-STick as a bootable device. The XBMCUbuntu doesn't contain such a file. If i make a bootable stick from the "normal Ubuntu", there is a .EFI-File on the stick and i can successful boot from my usb-stick.
2nd try: I burned the XBMCUbuntu image on a cd, put it in my laptop, press "ESC" while booting to see my bootable devices, but it doesn't detect the CD as a bootable device(because of the missing .EFI File?). If i burn the "normal Ubuntu" image to a CD i can successfully boot from the CD.
How can i install XBMCUbuntu on my laptop? Can i somehow genereate such an .EFI-File for the XBMCUbuntu installation? I already tried to copy the .EFI-File from the "normal Ubuntu" onto my usb-stick with the XBMCUbuntu on it. Now he detects my XBMCUbuntu-Stick as a bootable device but i cant install XBMCUbuntu with that bootloader because its not made for it.
A remark: With the cd i burned XBMCUbuntu on i can install it on another computers. So the CD / ISO isn't the problem.
Thanks for your help!
I recently bought a new ASUS-Laptop k55v-series. He came with a windows 8 on it. I thought that i keep windows8 for a while for test purposes.
Anyway, now i want to install XBMCUbuntu besides windows 8, so i downloaded the XBMCUbuntu iso and made with unetbootin a bootable USB-Stick. I put it in my laptop but my laptop doesn't detect it as a bootable device. After a long google search i found out that i need some kind of a bootloader (.EFI-File) that my laptop detects the USB-STick as a bootable device. The XBMCUbuntu doesn't contain such a file. If i make a bootable stick from the "normal Ubuntu", there is a .EFI-File on the stick and i can successful boot from my usb-stick.
2nd try: I burned the XBMCUbuntu image on a cd, put it in my laptop, press "ESC" while booting to see my bootable devices, but it doesn't detect the CD as a bootable device(because of the missing .EFI File?). If i burn the "normal Ubuntu" image to a CD i can successfully boot from the CD.
How can i install XBMCUbuntu on my laptop? Can i somehow genereate such an .EFI-File for the XBMCUbuntu installation? I already tried to copy the .EFI-File from the "normal Ubuntu" onto my usb-stick with the XBMCUbuntu on it. Now he detects my XBMCUbuntu-Stick as a bootable device but i cant install XBMCUbuntu with that bootloader because its not made for it.
A remark: With the cd i burned XBMCUbuntu on i can install it on another computers. So the CD / ISO isn't the problem.
Thanks for your help!
