I created a bootable SD drive via 1. First using dd (this is how I've always created bootable SD cards) sudo dd if=ubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sda bs=8M status=progress && sync 2. Then because I was getting a warning in gparted - which looks related EFI - I recreated via sudo sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sda sudo sgdisk --new=1:0:0 --typecode=1:ef00 /dev/sda sudo mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1 sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mn sudo 7z x ubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso -o/mnt/ sync The gparted warning is gone, but both methods result with: 1. From the boot manager from the initial boot menu, I boot using: EFI SD/MMC Card (SL64G) (I get unbootable device error if I choose the hard disk SL64G entry) 2. I see the following two lines platform wdat_wdt: failed to claim resource 4 acpi: watchdog: Device creation failed: -16 3. it reboots and I go back to step 2 over and over and over again. If anyone has any idea's I would be grateful. Thanks
What UEFI firmware version are you on? v1.0.1 has USB/SD card issues so you have to be on at least v1.0.2. And what if you are not stubborn and just follow the general instructions regarding Ubuntu installation?
I installed Ubuntu by booting it into the demo mode, used gparted to remove the QA partition and then started the installation. I've installed multiple X86s by now with Ubuntu 17.04.
