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For the past couple of months, I have been trying to install 20.04 on an Acer laptop. (I am a complete noob at Linux) All I can get it to do is cycle repeatedly at the startup splash screen. (Inserting the Live CD USB it boots perfectly fine) I have tried using the grub boot repair program with no change. Using the legacy setting in BIOS results in "no bootable device found". Disabling secure boot makes no difference.

I'm just at my wits end. Do I need to try a different bootloader? Is there some trick that I'm just not aware of?

I should mention that originally I was trying to install it on a USB hard drive- I finally just installed it directly to the SSD in the computer, and it still does the same thing.

James Hayward
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Following these instructions fixed my problem:

Unable to install Ubuntu on Acer Aspire ES1-533

This helped me get rid of all the extra boot files:

https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/how-to-use-linux-efibootmgr-examples

I basically copied and pasted the delete command in a text editor, then pasted it into the terminal window. I was able to delete dozens of the entries at a time! Just be careful when you type in the hex codes cuz this will do some damage if you get things wrong.

Thanks again to @oldfred for the help!

James Hayward
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