#Acer One 10 will boot to EFI Shell 2.31, and i cant seem to boot from usb

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paper moss
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I managed to boot into my USB Stick equipped with BlissOS (the os doesnt matter, but surprisingly its the only one i got to boot off a usb stick), and there is only one USB A, this is a problem because some of the keys on the keyboard act as numbers too, so if i wanna exit the shell i would have to type exit, but it comes out as ex58 or something like that, i can remove the usb stick, plug a keyboard in, then unplug the keyboard and plug back the usb stick and press enter but there is not much in the bios, i only managed to boot into the stick by doing absolutely nothing and it just booted fine but i had to reboot because of a mistake, now it shows the acer logo and goes straight into shell, completely disregarding the existence of the usb stick (which is being read since the light is flickering accordingly)

fallen pike
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I'm not sure I fully understand this... you're booting into a USB...then your keyboard acts up?

paper moss
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no, so basically

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everytime i turn on the acer laptop i get booted into the efi shell

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if i want to exit the shell i can't unless i plug in an external keyboard

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and since its half tablet half laptop

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it only has one type A

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i only managed to boot into the usb once '

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and i didnt intervene at all during that it just did it on its own

fallen pike
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Yeah, that keyboard issue is strange, but I suppose you can bypass the UEFI by pressing the right F button to go straight into the USB

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(And if it is pressing random stuff, maybe solving that issue would be a priority)

paper moss
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when would i press F?

paper moss
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still booted me into shell

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the keys that press numbers have the numbers on them w blue

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i tried pressing fn to get the keys but it didnt work either

fallen pike
# paper moss when would i press F?

Let's try this instead:

  • Shut down the laptop
  • Hold one of the F keys:
    F12 or F11...whichever boot menu your model has.
  • Press the power button and see if you can get the actual menus
paper moss
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i could try f8 no?

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for boot manager

fallen pike
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Idk what Acer uses, it's trial and error; for the BIOS itself it's usually just F2, DEL, F8, F11

paper moss
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ive managed to get a screen ocasionally

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saying to press either esc or del to enter setup

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but now it doesnt show it anymore

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oh wait

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i got the boot menu by pressing random f keys

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i have uefi generic and enter setup

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im assuming uefi generic for the usb?

fallen pike
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probably!

paper moss
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and im in the bios

fallen pike
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nice, not exactly my plan but a good start

paper moss
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i dont know which one would be the usb drive though

fallen pike
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yeah, now you can set it as UEFI Generic

paper moss
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i could try usb hard disk #2

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alright

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strange

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pressed f10

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and it sent me back to the bios

fallen pike
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okay? can you manually save & exit instead

paper moss
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yes

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black screen for now

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acer logo

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so i dont think it did anything

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also the acer logo takes a good 20/30 seconds to disappear

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maybe even more

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itd usually be a good sign showing that its reading the drive but

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i dont know what to say

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it still didnt go away

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andd back to the shell

fallen pike
paper moss
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Okay

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its also very difficult to power it off

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a i did reset

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in shell

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back in bios

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OO

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AN UNDERSCORE!

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nvm back to shell

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so usb key didnt work

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although it did show an underscore

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but it wasnt blinking

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usually that means that it booted into it but it didnt sadly

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when it booted automatically into it i had it set to disabled but i dont know if that matters

fallen pike
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I'm not sure whether to send this laptop into extensive repair or test with another flashdrive 😅

paper moss
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i could test with another flash drive

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or a mem card

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but i think mem card would be worse since i would need drivers for that usually

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i will try another usb drive

fallen pike
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Ait

paper moss
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but first i am gonna try booting into bios with no usb

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and then plugging back this one

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okay im trying another usb stick

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the new usb works!

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i did what i did last time

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not touch anything and it worked

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but i do have another problem

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i suppose create/modify partitions?

fallen pike
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I guess, I'm not familiar with BlissOS but that's a start

paper moss
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its basically just linux

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the way the partitions work

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but i dont understand why it wouldnt work for me

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maybe because the other usb was mbr?

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i will try thogh

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though*

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aahh

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no

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the other way around

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it was gpt the last time

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now its mbr and it is acting up

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i think i have an idea

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yeah it has to be gpt

paper moss
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so I've ran into another issue and i found out why it wouldn't boot and i think i may figured everything out

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I don't think it has internal storage

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only now do i realise that it tries to make the partitions on the usb drive

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hence the mem card slot

fallen pike
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peepoWhat every laptop has storage?

paper moss
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i dont think so though because the website specifies it has 64 gigs

paper moss
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its a tablet with detachable keyboard

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i just figured out how to detach the keyboard

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it may be an os issue so im gonna try something im more familiar with

fallen pike
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I see

paper moss
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it's a 32 bit chipset so its a bit hard to find and OS but i think i'll manage

paper moss
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no, something is totally wrong

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i am in mint right now and it straight up sees no disk to install to

fallen pike
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Ouch.