I bought an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42. It came with Windows 10 on the SSD, but my plan was to install Ubuntu 18.04 in the SSD and install Windows 10 in the HDD. This, because my focus for this laptop is coding. I already have a gaming pc.
I'm having several problems:
When finishing installing Ubuntu the first time, I had a really hard time booting into Ubuntu, because of some conflicts with the kernel, and reading some posts I figure that adding "pci=noacpi" as a parameter in the boot options it could boot correctly. It did.
There is no GRUB. I tried using boot-repair, but it did nothing.
I can't see the Windows 10 partition installed in the HDD.
Ubuntu doesn't let me install new drivers. The touchpad is disabled, even with
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
.
I'm considering starting all over again, but I would like to do it correctly. I'm still not sure if having both OS separated in both drives is the right way, and haven't found a step-by-step for my laptop model.
Thanks everyone.
gparted
to see if you still have data on the HDD. i.e., did you erase it by accident. Boot-repair's report can also tell you this.