The Acer BIOS F12 boot selection screen shows 2 bootable options when I start the machine with a MX Linux Live USB inserted.
- Linpus Lite
- Windows
Steps I did to prepare for dual-boot:
Disabled Fast Boot in both the BIOS and within the Windows OS,
Disabled Secure Boot within the BIOS, and,
Trying another Live system type, namely, Ventoy
The Acer BIOS sees them as a Linpus Lite device, but it seemed nothing I did would get it to boot, it just went straight to Windows.
That's when I thought I should revisit our MX-LUM and make another Live-USB, but this time, with only 3 extra clicks, use the Advanced Options to set the Live-USB up with a GPT Partition structure instead of the older MS-DOS system. Well it worked a charm. The moral of this story, it's best to match the type of Live USB with the machine you're intending to use it on. We make it incredibly easy when using our MX Live-USB Maker to use either the age old MS-DOS type partition structure which is good for most machines, or the newer and more capable GPT partitioning structure, which is better suited to machines built from 2011-2012 and later, but will not boot on older hardware.
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System: Kernel: 5.10.0-19-amd64 [5.10.149-2] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash lang=en_NZ kbd=us
tz=Pacific/Auckland
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.2.1_x64 Wildflower September 18 2022
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF314-41 v: V1.04 serial: <filter>
Mobo: PK model: Strongbow_PK v: V1.04 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04
date: 10/17/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: N/A condition: N/A volts: 9.1 min: N/A model: N/A type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Not charging
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24) stepping: 1 microcode: 8108102
cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 33536
Speed: 399 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 399 2: 399
3: 399 4: 399 5: 399 6: 399 7: 398 8: 398
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b5c5
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8")
diag: 354mm (13.9")
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 5.10.0-19-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor driver: N/A
alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-19-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel modules: wl bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2.4:4 chip-ID: 04ca:3016
class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.0
sub-v: 25a hci-v: 5.0
Info: acl-mtu: 1024:8 sco-mtu: 50:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff
link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio
Drives: Local Storage: total: 551.5 GiB used: 8.37 GiB (1.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1014 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 20110000
temp: 27.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: A-Data model: SP 900 size: 59.63 GiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 8105
scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Corsair model: Corsair Voyager 3.0
size: 14.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter>
rev: 000A scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: 30.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1970 lib: 989 flatpak: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mx.debian.nz/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info: Processes: 254 Uptime: 8m wakeups: 2 Memory: 5.73 GiB used: 1.38 GiB (24.1%)
Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A
alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06
Boot Mode: UEFI