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I have Sony Vaio with Inte i3 Processor - 2.27 GHz processor and 3 GB RAM, 64 bit with Windows 7, operating system, trying to replace with Ubuntu

Created USB with instructions as in below link https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#0

Getting boot error, when tried to boot from external device. Used SanDisk 32 GB flash drive.

Kristopher Ives
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BPen
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  • Do you plan to use dual boot? Before creating a live-usb with rufus you need to figure out first if you need to be using MBR+BIOS-boot or GPT+UEFI-boot. See here: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Some_basics_of_MBR_v/s_GPT_and_BIOS_v/s_UEFI – yms Nov 26 '18 at 00:12
  • Possibly related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/644901/booting-a-sony-vaio-computer-running-windows-8-1-in-ubuntu-from-a-usb-drive?rq=1 – yms Nov 26 '18 at 00:15
  • I am planning to use just Ubuntu and I don't need Windows 7 - I am new to Linux and new to Sysadmin side of things- I work in Windows environment and database development side - so I am fine with whatever works on my machine – BPen Nov 26 '18 at 00:20
  • In that case, the easiest way to go would be going into your bios, making sure you disable UEFI and stick to BIOS boot mode, then configure rufus for MBR/BIOS when creating your live-usb. – yms Nov 26 '18 at 00:22
  • yes, I used same settings (MBR/BIOS) as in this - https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#3 page. except cluster size it was defaulted to 32 KB usb live creation is fine and I disabled UEFI - the option in Sony Vaio is External Boot - enable.

    After it goes into boot - just gets "Boot error" - no other info

     – BPen Nov 26 '18 at 01:32
  • one more thing I think of is, currently my disk is partitioned to 3 drives, but c drive currently has over 100 GB free - does partitioning matter ? – BPen Nov 26 '18 at 01:35
  • I think I figured I had to enable internal virtualization technology option enabled - thank you very much for your responses – BPen Nov 26 '18 at 01:44
  • Virtualization is only needed if you run linux under a virtual machine on top of Windows (like vmware or virtualbox). If you are running it directly on the laptop it has no effect. – yms Nov 26 '18 at 03:16
  • ok thanks, maybe that laptop is configured not to overwrite windows OS that's why I had to enable that option. I have to check if it actually overwrote Windows OS. – BPen Nov 27 '18 at 23:09

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