Ubuntu – No “Install Ubuntu” option when booting from USB drive

20.04secure-bootsystem-installationwindows 10

I decided to install Ubuntu on my laptop alongside Windows 10. I downloaded the Ubuntu 20.04 iso file from the official Ubuntu website. I formatted my USB from NTFS to FAT32 and used Rufus 3.12 to make a bootable USB drive with the Ubuntu .iso file that I had downloaded.

After getting into the BIOS I selected the boot from USB in the boot menu, but I didn't get any "Install Ubuntu" option. It seemed to me as if Ubuntu has already been installed, but it hasn't. I also tried Universal USB Installer 19.9.5 instead of Rufus, but the result was same.

This is the next screen after I chose booting from USB in the boot menu.

These are the errors I got after choosing the first "Ubuntu" option.

Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

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The answer in this case is

to make sure that Secure Boot is disabled in the BIOS/UEFI and
Disable Windows fast startup (Win 8.1 and Win 10). This is done by booting into Windows, and calling up the Settings menu and looking for "Turn on fast startup", then uncheck it.

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I fought with the same problem. I have a brand new Asus GL553VW. I wanted to install Linux but I had to face a lot of problems and still have some. The beauty is that it's a gamer laptop and doesn't really have support for Linux... So, I will write down my past problems and the solution for them.

I had the same freezing issue during the installation. You should go to the grub, where you choose the booting operating system. If it doesn't appear by default, you should press Shift until you see it.

Then choose the Ubuntu, or Install Ubuntu (it depends, you will see it hopefully), go to it with the arrows and press the 'e' key.
Here go to the line which contains quiet splash at the end and add acpi=off after these words.
Then press F10 to boot with these settings.

The installer didn't freeze for me after that. However, you should be aware of that it changes only for the initial boot, after it, when you want to install Linux, you need to change it again.

The next problem I faced was that after booting, in one minute the fans started to scream and work at maximum speed. Other was that the shutdown freezed and I had to press the shutdown key longly. The solution to both of these was to install nvidia. Type in terminal:

sudo apt-get install nvidia

Press tab twice and see which nvidia is the newest. For example, it will look like:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-352

Hopefully it will be the same for you.

Next problem: the fn keys. Only the volume control worked with it. Unfortunately I haven't find an exact solution yet. I'm trying, but it would need a driver, which I'm afraid doesn't exist. However, I set my shortcuts in settings and after that, at least for instance the brightness control works (but with another key combination). The only bug which I faced then was that the keyboard backlight doesn't work whatever I do (in Windows, it's perfect after the installation of drivers from the given CD). I'm trying to solve it. Hopefully I will find a way to bring it to life. I haven't found any other bugs yet, and I hope I won't. I haven't started to use it really...

Hope I could help you! :)

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