That seems to confirm ES1-711 (see the most right line in your pic) with a manufacturing date from 2015 …
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A laptop from 2015 would definitely be UEFI compatible.
Also, check if Boot Menu disabled
Cold start > Power on > Tap F2 (say, one second intervals) > Should reach UEFI settings > Main > F12 Boot Menu > Enabled
One the first things I did was disable F 12 safe bootmenu.
Then a temporary supervisor password, disable secure boot. After that DVD to the top of the boot ordered. Boot mode from UEFI to legacy.Remove temp. password and F 10. After restart I got the bootscreen on the picture.
Now my only question is how load a kernel. And I think I have to format the SSD
Harry van Veen
Again (and for the last time now…) you … do … not … load … a … kernel … 
The message means your installation media is broken and the bootloader can due to this not find a kernel.
There is nothing that you can do to change this message, you can only check your iso if it is not corrupt and make sure your iso is not too big for the DVD, note that the Ubuntu Desktop iso is 5.9GB, it will not fit on a 4.7GB DVD and become corrupt if you write it to a 4.7GB disk …
Try something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu, they both have smaller iso files.
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Why?
Again, why?
UEFI (with GPT) installations are far superior to old-fashioned Legacy.
Use a suitable utility to place Xubuntu 24.04 or Lubuntu 24.04 on a USB stick
https://rufus.ie/en/ or https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
Enable UEFI and F12 Boot menu
Boot and install in UEFI mode
Happiness will follow
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Because in UEFI mode the whole system simply refuses to boot. I think I can install Ubuntu when I loaded a kernel, ?but how?
And the USB ports did not work from the beginning.
So thank you all for your support but only one question still stands.
Harry van Veen
Do you read any of my messages above or am I on ignore ?
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Many UEFI system have another setting for USB like full USB support or allow USB boot. Does your Acer have that setting or did you also turn that off?
I didn’t turn anything off. In the first place Windows turned off the DVD player just before the HDD broke down. That is why I didn’t have a backup. And I think the original kernel was in the Windows program.
Tryed to boot from USB stick first. After that my daughter in law burned a DVD with Ubuntu. And that works.
I am very grateful for all your support. And with some patience I will get the machine running.
Correction: The DVD clearly does NOT work.
That is the problem you have been describing.
That is what the error message means.
A properly-working DVD would load the kernel completely automatically and show you the pretty Ubuntu installer.
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Think you are right. I never had the problem before.
But I found a local IT engineer who might solve the problem. Fingers crossed. I’ll keep you informed anyway.
Harry van Veen
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The engineer I referered to is a Microsoft engineer. So that doesn’t work either.
Next is trying everything all over again.
But since I am already trying to repair the thing for 4 months I won’t give up.
Our sons say I am mad, should bye a new one, but I am rather stubborn. And it must be possible to install Linux on an Acer
Thanks anyway
Harry van Veen
So ask your daughter to burn you another DVD but use an iso that actually fits onto a DVD (Ubuntu does not, as you have already learned), here are two flavours you can use on DVD:
Lubuntu:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/24.04.2/release/lubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
Xubuntu
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/24.04.2/release/xubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
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I believe you should enter Bios/UEFI and revert the changes back to factory conditions.
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DVD is about 8 GB, so is sufficient. And ISO file is complete.
USB gates don’t work.
I think Acer hardware is a little bit difficult to handle.
And that is exactly what I am going to do tomorrow.
Put the BIOS in factory mode
Don’t think it will work, but try every possibility.
I am surprised that a consumer-grade laptop won’t boot from USB under any conditions.
You are sure you tried ALL the USB ports?
You are sure that you didn’t disable that capability in BIOS?
The BIOS boot options simply never include USB booting? After toggling Secure Boot and other settings?
If you could get those USB ports working, you will find the install to be much, much easier.
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Me too… I had this laptop, and it was because of it that I started using Linux, because its Intel Bay Trail processor had a bug that could be worked around in Linux.
LS
Everybody thank you for responding.
I tried every possible switch in the BIOS and nothing worked. I only get the installation screen when boot mode is on legacy.
Since I doubt that the ISO file is corrupted, the DVD is 8,5 GB, the problem must be in the Acer system.
Also tried to boot from a Windows DVD, that didn’t respond at all.
I’ll try to ask a Linux IT’er if he can solve something.
Or get the disk out and Install Ubuntu external.
Keep trying.