Comment 9 for bug 1167617

I have exact same issue as kannan. Lenovo and Dell both make it impossible to install any Legacy ROMs. I started with a Lenovo Thinkpad 440 and could only get Ubuntu 16.04 installed under UEFI after 8 hours of trying to get Backbox Linux on there, which is based on Ubuntu but doesn't have the Microsoft extortion certificate on it (has to be installed Legacy). So instead, I got a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, brand new, with Ubuntu pre-installed and I STILL can't get Backbox on it. I did a BIOS wipe which managed to kill the obnoxious Dell OS Recovery Agent, turned off almost everything in my BIOS, and still get an UEFI error at the end of the Backbox installation saying it couldn't be installed into /target/. I even tried to reformat the drive with Acronis Disk Director and the Acronis bootable could only see itself in the tool, not even the drives on the machine.

I think the last issue may be a AHCI/RAID thing, but everything I've read about it seems to say disable the RAID option in the BIOS and do AHCI, but mine was already set like that.

It's just not fair that we spend all this money on a machine that we can't use how we wish. Even Ubuntu allows this chicanery to continue. My distro carries an Ubuntu 14.04 base - why is it this hard to install?!