[Acer V3 571G] Legacy boot does not show GRUB2

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Hello,

I’ve just bought an Acer V3-571G-53236G50Makk laptop.

Since it would let me boot from openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 DVD for some “security restriction” and I couldn’t disable Secure Mode from BIOS, I switched to legacy mode and restarted my laptop.

It read the DVD (yay!) I resized my Windows 8 partition, created a SWAP, / (ext4) and Data (FAT) partition and went on with the setup. Grub2 was installed on / and MBR (so it said before I clicked install).
Installation went fine.
On rebooting I get a pretty verbose screen saying

Booting from local disk...
Missing OS
Missing OS

Then some Broadcom and Intel copyright text, then:


PXE-E61: Media test faliure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM

And a request: should I be so kind as to insert a boot disc and press any key?

I have zero laptop experience and since I couldn’t find a model-specific topic on Google, I’d rather bother you with a silly question than screw up my new laptop big time.

Cheers,
S~

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Okay, according to this ubuntu guide I’m an idiot, and you can’t dual boot if Win is in UEFI and Linux in Legacy mode…

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right. both have to be in same mode. You should be able to boot the DVD in UEFI mode if you press a key I think F10 or F8 (depends on make)which should give you a boot menu and select the boot there. You can install with secure boot on you do have to tick the option in the install setup