Can't start Lubuntu after installing

Hi!

I have installed Lubuntu from USB onto my Acer Aspire ES1-132 which had installed WIndows 10 on it.
Acer has 32GB eMMC.
After installing Lubuntu I can’t boot into, it’s booting Windows Recovery instead.
In BIOS there is Windows Boot Manager and I have changed the order of booting, but it still boots Windows.
How to repair this?

You’ve not told us what Lubuntu release was used.

I also wonder how you wrote the unstated Lubuntu ISO to your install USB media; as if it wasn’t written as per documentation; the result can be problems with the boot loader installation (the summary detail at install time gives clues that this could occur if you read the detail provided closely) and thus a failure to boot as you describe. How did you write your ISO to media? (if you reformat the ISO during your write to media; it can ‘influence’ the installer when it works out where/how to install boot loader)

A commonly used tool to repair these states is Boot-Repair - Community Help Wiki but sorry I have little experience with it, and don’t know your hardware.

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I have installed 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)

I used Rufus to write ISO to USB following instructions on this page
https://minipcsupport.com/blog/2024/03/05/how-to-install-the-lubuntu-operating-system/

You did use options to REFORMAT the ISO, so your chosen options need to match your hardware specifically.

I don’t use rufus so I can’t help there, but we do our QA when a simple clone of the ISO is written to install media; which I believe is a dd-mode write method in the rufus app.

The instruction page you provided does mention 20.04; where the releases beyond 20.04 (ie. 20.10 & later) do slightly differ in format to those used up to 20.04, which may complicate issues (this impacted Rufus writes I’m very aware; but as I don’t use that app I’ve not kept up to date). Your version of rufus needs to be updated to correctly write 24.10 ISOs where reformat options are used; was your software the latest?

If it was me; I’d write the ISO to your install media unchanged via options on the ISO-write; ie. using the specs we include within our ISO and not overriding those by options/changes in your ISO writer; unless you’re rather familiar with your hardware & the effects of the changes you make.

Did you try and follow our manual? and the official links we QA test with?

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I have made a mistake during installation.
I reinstalled Lubuntu by choosing Erase disk in setup.
And then I got message “No bootable device”.
I followed these instructions and I managed to boot.
https://askubuntu.com/a/1252612

It works fine, but I had to disable SecureBoot.
How to make it work with SecureBoot enabled?
There is no option “Select an UEFI file as trusted for executing” in BIOS.