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* Bought in 2013 &dmash; See [[New PC - 2013]] for selection page
* Bought in 2013 &dmash; See [[New PC - 2013]] for selection page
* Default OS: ''Win 8 64''
* Default OS: ''Win 8 64''
* CPU: ''i7-4700HQ''
* CPU: ''[http://ark.intel.com/products/75116 i7-4700HQ]''
** Micro-architecture: ''Haswell'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture) wikipedia page])
* RAM: ''8GB''
* RAM: ''8GB''
* GPU: ''Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 4GB''
* GPU: ''Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 4GB''

Revision as of 11:11, 20 April 2014

Installed Operating System

Current OS Log

System

Hardware

ASUS N550JV-XO220H
  • Bought in 2013 &dmash; See New PC - 2013 for selection page
  • Default OS: Win 8 64
  • CPU: i7-4700HQ
  • RAM: 8GB
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 4GB

References

  • Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8: Detailed blog entry, detailed answer on askubuntu.
    Suggestions:
    • Turn off fast startup
      If fast startup is turned on, Windows keeps a snapshot of the system when it boots up, which gets corrupted or lost when installing Ubuntu
      Option is available via Control Panel → Power Options → Choose what the power button does → click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable" !
    • Disable secure boot
      Although Ubuntu is compatible with secure boot, secure boot is still the part that creates most dual boot issues.
    • Disable UEFI Boot
      Also called enable CSM boot (CSM means Compatibility Support Module). This restores the old usual boots, but requires GRUB to boot Windows 8
      Q? Will recovery via F9 continue to work?
  • Info on UEFI
  • Access to BIOS might be disabled if PC boots Windows 8 in Secure Boot mode.
    To access BIOS, go to Windows 8 power off options, and click Restart while holding SHIFT. Then, select Troubleshoot, and UEFI Firmware Settings.

Log

  • Boot in Windows 8, let update runs, etc.
  • In BIOS, disable fast boot and secure boot, and enable CSM boot
  • In Windows 8, disable fast startup
  • In Windows 8, Shrink C: to 188GB, and delete / create new D: 184GB right after C: (this leaves ~500GB for Linux)
  • Boot USB with Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit
  • Install Ubuntu, and run boot-repair
  • Flash BIOS to v207 (was 204)
  • Backup Restore partition (/dev/sda6) with ntfsclone
  • Backup Recovery partition (/dev/sda2) with ntfsclone
  • Backup Efi partition (/dev/sda1) with partimage
  • Backup GPT table (with gdisk and dd of 4096 sectors)

To be completed

Partition

Device Label Size Type Mount uid gid permissions
/dev/sda1/ OS xx.xxGiB ntfs /windows/c ? ? drwxrwx---
/dev/sda2/ SWAP xx.xxGiB linux-swap swap ? ?
/dev/sda3/ UBUNTU xx.xxGiB reiserfs / ? ? drwxr.xr.x

Total disk size: 931.39GB. Original partition, from Windows 8:

  • 300MB — EFI System Partition
  • 900MB — Recovery Partition
  • 372.60GB — OS (ntfs)
  • 537.60GB — DATA (ntfs)
  • 20.01GB — Recovery Partition

1st Install

To be completed