I know the Surface Pro 4 is new, but has anyone tried to support the keyboard and mouse pad for it? None of the input devices (screen, key/mouspad, stylus) appear to work when I load the live USB. I'd be willing to try my hand and creating something to support these devices, but I would need someone to point me towards reference material where I could teach myself about drivers.
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Here was my solution, which worked using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Took me 1.5 days to figure out :-/
I could not do this without a multi USB adapter. I needed at least 2 USB ports. Here's what I did.
USB Storage
appears at the top of the list in Boot config.bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu yes
and hit enter. This will make sure the Windows Boot menu appears on turning on the SP4 - note this also gives you many more boot options, so can be very useful.When I rebooted, the Ubuntu GRUB2 loads up and gives you the choice to either load Ubuntu, or open the Windows Boot Loader.
Note - it may not actually be necessary to enable the Windows Boot Loader menu, but it didn't work when disabled for 15.10.
If anything goes wrong you can always download an SP4 Windows 10 Recovery ISO from Microsoft's website, and there's always the recovery partition on the SP4. Overall I'd recommend turning on the Windows Boot Loader menu as it gives you more boot options.
Anyway, good luck !