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My motherboard is a Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 (CPU 1), it's a UEFI -Dual boot, and when I try installing Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon or Ubuntu 13.10 it always bring this error

(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system.

I put all my BIOS config in legacy options, disabled UEFI, but still the same error. Right now I am running Windows 8.1 64b I use Universal USB installer and made a live USB

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Have you disabled Secure Boot in BIOS? –  Alko Mar 11 '14 at 13:24
    
Also just try to mount another Linux iso maybe an ubuntu to be shure that you're not using a corrupt image. –  konqui Mar 11 '14 at 14:42

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You have to disable Secure Boot: Making UEFI Secure Boot work with open platforms

"Secure boot" is a technology described by recent revisions of the UEFI specification; it offers the prospect of a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that can improve the security of many system deployments. Linux and other open operating systems will be able to take advantage of secure boot if it is implemented properly in the hardware.

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@slm thanks, i've done it. –  NJil Apr 17 '14 at 14:53

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