Acer Iconia Tab W511 - Ubuntu

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2013-12-01: well, booting from the rEFInd usb stick doesn't automatically find the Ubuntu mem stick. Various info from rEFInd: rEFInd version 0.7.5, running on:

EFI Revision 2.31
Platform: x86 (32 bit)
Firmware: INSYDE Corp 21027.17
Screen Output: Graphics Output (UEFI), 1366x768
When In start the EFI shell, it says
EFI Shell version 2.31 [21027.17]
Current running mode 1.1.2

2013-12-01: I am using my workstation to prepare an usb memory stick from an iso image, to see if rEFInd can boot it.

tingo@kg-core1$ uname -a
FreeBSD kg-core1.kg4.no 8.4-STABLE FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #0 r253646: Thu Jul 25 10:12:31 UTC 2013     root@kg-core1.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
tingo@kg-core1$ su
Password:
root@kg-core1# dd if=./ubuntu-13.10-desktop-i386.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k
14320+0 records in
14320+0 records out
938475520 bytes transferred in 191.153398 secs (4909541 bytes/sec)

disktype info:

root@kg-core1# disktype /dev/da0

--- /dev/da0
Character device, size 3.729 GiB (4004511744 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 895.0 MiB (938442752 bytes, 1832896 sectors from 64, bootable)
  Type 0x17 (Hidden HPFS/NTFS)
  ISO9660 file system
    Volume name "Ubuntu 13.10 i386"
    Preparer    "XORRISO-1.1.8 2011.11.20.173001, LIBISOBURN-1.1.8, LIBISOFS-1.1.6, LIBBURN-1.1.8"
    Data size 895.0 MiB (938442752 bytes, 458224 blocks of 2 KiB)
    Joliet extension, volume name "Ubuntu 13.10 i38"
ISO9660 file system
  Volume name "Ubuntu 13.10 i386"
  Preparer    "XORRISO-1.1.8 2011.11.20.173001, LIBISOBURN-1.1.8, LIBISOFS-1.1.6, LIBBURN-1.1.8"
  Data size 895 MiB (938475520 bytes, 458240 blocks of 2 KiB)
  El Torito boot record, catalog at 240
    Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 455088, preloads 2 KiB
      Platform 0x00 (x86), System Type 0x00 (Empty)
      ISOLINUX boot loader
  Joliet extension, volume name "Ubuntu 13.10 i38"

Interesting stuff.