Getting Ubuntu on to our Linx. 1010 window touch tablet
The problems with most of those tablets are:
- EFI boot system support only 32-bit mode while the system is 64-bit.
- BIOS does not support ISO9660 filesystem (on USB drives?)
Good thing is that you actually can install Ubuntu on it :-)
I can not describe the process in exact details because different bios versions are different. But the main steps are:
- Find bootia32.efi file (suggest Github) and download it.
- Make USB "installer". Format it FAT32 and copy the contents of original Ubuntu installer ISO file to it. I am not sure about should the USB disk be bootable or not (looks like it does not matter).
- Copy bootia32.efi to the USB disk under \EFI\BOOT or similar. Copy any other stuff you want.
- Boot your tablet to BIOS with the USB disk connected
- Sometimes to gain access to all EFI options you have to setup supervisor password in your tablet BIOS - so do it. After everything works you can disable (clear) it back.
- Specify path to bootia32.efi in BIOS EFI as trusted file
- Either set USB disk as first boot option or enable boot option selection (F12 usually)
- Good idea is to enable network access during install through wired usb adapter - do it.
- Boot the tablet from USB disk and install Ubuntu, allow download modules during install.
- After install is finished, remove USB disk, boot to BIOS and specify path to groobia32.efi on fixed disk (NOT USB) as trusted. You can remove the BIOS supervisor password now.
- Here your tablet should boot to Ubuntu normally.