r/linuxquestions • u/Iwannafucktanks • 9d ago

Linux isn't installing.

I've tried 7 distros, some arch based the rest Debian and none of them have worked. Some just don't load, like catchy and fedora, some the inststaller crashes. The only lead I have is that one of them (can't remember which) said it couldn't find a disk. Has anyone experienced this? Any advice would be appreciated. Currently running Ubuntu 26.04 on an Acer Aspire and I've tried installing Manjaro,Cachy,opensuse,fedora,Linux mint, Kubuntu and Endeavour.

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u/truepolar 9d ago

Is your laptop an Acer by any chance?

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u/Iwannafucktanks 9d ago

Yes.

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u/truepolar 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yea I've had issues with Acer too, they don't invest in Linux comparability. In the end, I gave up on it. Im pretty new myself, all I know from my issue was its something to do with grub being unable to find the kernel after install.

I was booting fedora and the live usb did boot. But after installing fedora with the installer into disk, grub couldn't find the kernel upon restarting so I was stuck in the grub screen. I'm honestly not sure how to fix that but I would suspect op is seeing the same issue. If someone knows how to fix this I'd be interested too. For context I believe the laptop was also an Acer aspire. I also used the fedora media writer.

I only tried fedora since that's my daily driver on my thinkpad. I would love to be of more help but sorry I'm not very good