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Installed Operating System
Current OS Log
System
Hardware
- ASUS N750JK-T4123H
- Bought in 2014 &dmash; See New PC - 2014 for selection page
- Default OS: Win 8.1 64
- CPU: i7-4700HQ
- Micro-architecture: Haswell (wikipedia page)
- RAM: 8GB
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M 2GB
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?
- Turn off fast startup
- 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.
- ASUS Recovery — press F9 at boot to go to recovery console, and restore from RECOVERY partition.
- ASUS Recovery - via Windows
- Asus support - N50JV - Download
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 (via the Control Panel, Power Options, Define what the power buttons do)
- In Windows 8, Shrink C: to 190000MB, and delete / create new D: 189999GB right after C: (this leaves ~500GB for Linux)
- Boot USB with Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
- Install Ubuntu, and run boot-repair (/boot 450MB, swap 8192MB, / 20480MB, /home ~520GB)
- 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 8.1:
- 100MB — EFI System Partition
- 900MB — Recovery Partition
- 372.61GB — OS (ntfs)
- 537.80GB — DATA (ntfs)
- 20.01GB — Recovery Partition
1st Install
To be completed