The system will install as normal, for whatever reason. EFI Boot is enabled in the virtual machine configuration. Once the other error message shows up, give up and type exit, then hit the enter key. The virtual machine loads with some EFI Shell commands: alttext. That will make things a lot easier than guessing your drive name. If the flash is in, it asks me if I want to boot from the USB, The Windows Boot Manager or the EFI Shell or if I want to enter bios. Type mount (ex, mine showed up as blk0) Before you go into the uefi shell from the boot menu, move the highlighted line over your usb and write down the name and details. On startup if I press F5 it opens the Boot menu. You can also browse disk volumes and start EFI applications. Moral of the story, open UEFI shell, type mount, hit enter. The shell allows you to explore the EFI environment by entering text commands. Now there is a gradient from pink-deep purple screen with what appears to be a line etching of a panther. just looked again, there is a small spinning thing in the bottom right corner. now the spinning thing is gone and ubuntu is on the bottom. I have a spinning thing with ubuntu on the screen. From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > Embedded UEFI Shell > Add Embedded UEFI Shell to Boot.

Just saying.Ĥ% to go.never mind, no errors found.

Ok, so I followed the directions, not having a geek->human translator, and after I couldn't find anything with EFI in the UEFI shell, I typed exit, hit enter, and then things booted up as they should have. Subdirectories of EFI for OS bootloaders and utilities, e.g.

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