20 min into my 3 (or 4th?) #elementaryOS install. This is whats called the brute force method. I feel I'm getting closer. Last install I made it to a broken grub menu.
avoid this computer if you want to run Linux
HP convertible x360 11-ab0xx
it shouldn't be this hard to get Ubuntu working on a fresh install. gotta be some hardware problem.
over 10 min #elementaryOS sitting at the "running grub-install /dev/sda" part of install.
i'm done with this. sadly will install win10 back on this machine.
@Matter nope, tried using my ubuntu 18 live USB that already installed perfectly on my other system. Still.fails at installing grub.
@eliasg did you disable the boot sector lock in bios?
@vector secure boot? Or something else
@eliasg yeah, I believe that is what I was thinking of.
@vector disabled. fast boot disabled.
I'll try ubuntu then win 10, if that fails,
Win 10 then elementary os.
@eliasg hopefully, you can get it to work I was thinking about getting that laptop to dual boot Ubuntu/Win10
@vector it seems to be a grub/boot record problem. always fails installation during grub related stuff.
also this laptop has one of those SSD/sata hybrid drives which I'm completely unfamiliar with.
@eliasg Dell and Lenovo computers are Linux friendly
@eliasg maybe something's wrong with the installation medium?