Installing Ubuntu 15.10 on the Defiance II

[karthik.upadhya]

Hi All
I just got a new laptop configured and received it with the intention that to install linux and i tried all of them with no luck(mint, centos, fedora, ubuntu).
It is not installing linux at all which is odd as linux could be installed on a minimum hard drive, some of the components might not have a compatible driver and not work(i can understand that) but not installing at all is very odd!!!

I wonder if anybody has similar issue(i noticed on this forum some purchased similar laptop and installed linux successfully).

I noticed in my BIOS there is no section of advanced setting

SPEC:
SkyFire: 14" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Intel® CoreTM i7 Quad Core Processor 6700HQ (2.6GHz, 3.5GHz Turbo)
32GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M - 2.0GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 12
1TB SEAGATE HYBRID 2.5" SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
Integrated 2 in 1 Memory Card Reader (SD, MMC)
1 x 90W AC Adaptor
1 x 1 Metre Cloverleaf UK Power Cable
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-8260 M.2 (867Mbps, 802.11AC) +BT 4.0,
vPRO
2 x USB 3.1 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD

Thanks

You have a muxless laptop which is why you don't see the advanced settings in the BIOS. And as Stephen mentioned, type 'e' at the bootloader and then type nouveau.modeset=0 before the words quiet spash in the GRUB_LINUX_CMD line. Hope this helps.