Won't boot?

[enzaaibueno]

Alright so, I just spent my whole day troubleshooting trying to make a USB stick with Linux on it and I finally got it to work, or I thought. I used an old laptop with 4gb of ram to set it up, everything went well and I got Ubuntu to work. I restarted, went to the boot menu, selected my USB and successfully booted into Linux. So I'm like yay finally it works but nah. I plug it in to my surface book 2 (8g ram, gtx 1050, Intel i7), go to the uefi and boot from USB, and it fails and It just goes into windows. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Applefreak]

Did you format the USB to FAT32, otherwise I believe it won't boot in the surface book.

[enzaaibueno]

Just now, Applefreak said:

Did you format the USB to FAT32, otherwise I believe it won't boot in the surface book.

Only one partition, but the partition with the / mount point is ext4 and there is another partition that's fat32, if i remember correctly the mount partition of that one is /USB_NAME

[Applefreak]

EXT4 won't boot on the surface. Remember it's Microsoft so anything foreign is not welcome. You need the entire device in FAT32.

[LogicalDrm]

15 hours ago, Applefreak said:

EXT4 won't boot on the surface. Remember it's Microsoft so anything foreign is not welcome. You need the entire device in FAT32.

Or NTFS if the device is using UEFI. FAT32 is only for legacy BIOS. If BIOS supports both, then NTFS can be used.

[Slayerking92]

Use Rufus to make a UEFI bootable key, then it should work on the surface.