new ssd drive. clean install. acer laptop. PNY 240GB

[Phil Sprute]

failed. doing grub update and grub install manually - then doing a slackware install. my touchpad also does not work correctly in UEFI mode with "try ubuntu".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.4 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-lowlatency 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Mon Feb 5 18:15:48 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phil Sprute (n-aimin-9)]

linux report 512 disk reported 2048 block size - again - clean install on a new ssd drive

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

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