However there was a strange restart issue. Netbook never restarted and ended up in a black screen unlike on the Windows starter installation. However Power Off worked perfectly. After making several attems I was able to fix it and though it would be helpful to share this information with you.
The reason for these issues could be a BIOS issue or the hardware setup of the system. For example some netbooks with Atom processor doesn't come with a keyboard controller in which case Linux kernel can't figure out the way to tackle that situation. However the best thing about Linux is, there is always a solution if you can sit in-front of for many hours
- Type following command,
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$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub - Find GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”” and change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”reboot=efi”
- Press Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit
- Type following command to update the grub
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$ sudo update-grub
- warm = Don’t set the cold reboot flag
- cold = Set the cold reboot flag
- bios = Reboot by jumping through the BIOS (only for X86_32)
- smp = Reboot by executing reset on BSP or other CPU (only for X86_32)
- triple = Force a triple fault (init)
- kbd = Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
- acpi = Use the RESET_REG in the FADT
- efi = Use efi reset_system runtime service
- pci = Use the so-called “PCI reset register”, CF9
- force = Avoid anything that could hang.
Acer Aspire One D257 netbook - efi fixed the issue
Acer Aspire One Happy 2 netbook - acpi fixed the issue
Dell latitude E6420 - pci fixed the issue
Please add what worked for you to this list.