Hi guys, I tried to install different distros on my laptop, Acer ES1-311. However, none of them booted. I just chose the EFI partition of the drive as the mount point of /boot/efi, shrinked the Windows partition and sat everything up, did the same in all cases (except one). However, there is never any other option than booting Windows, I tried it with different BIOS settings, but GRUB never kicked in.
Well I am probably not going to be of any help to you, but if nothing else I can give you a free bump.
If you can still boot into a live cd/usb, then I would suggest using the terminal to reinstall grub.
also make sure that the boot volume in the bios is the same where you installed grub.
if you boot into a live environment , remember to mount the drive and chroot into it. then install grub and then update grub. the command to update grub should look like
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.conf
if you have just installed linux, you could do it again if you are lazy, just remember to follow the rules for mbr or uefi. i am able to disable my secure boot, so i escape the uefi headache.
Thanks guys, but I solved the problem by simply going Legacy ;)