Note that Robert's machine seems to behave differently from the Asus
machines I've had (5 in all), so I've suggested he and I figure this out
off-list and get back when we have an understanding of what is happening.
My experience with Asus machines is that they come partitioned with a
recovery partition, a Windows "C:" drive and an empty "D:" drive. I
simply booted a live DVD (external drive) or USB and chose manual
partitioning and grabbed the empty partition. I've been putting Mint on
my machines with reasonable satisfaction. Maya (13) is based on Ubuntu
12.04, Olivia (15) on 13.04 as I understand. I actually find I like Maya
or Nadia better than Olivia, but it is not a major concern.
Note that my machines were Win 7 beasts, so Asus may have changed
structure going to Win 8. That may be worth informing list about, as
well as your experiences.
JN
On 13-10-13 11:47 AM, Michael Goguen wrote:
I picked up an asus laptop , and I am interested in dual-booting linux with
windows 8 as well. I was thinking of using Ubuntu, either 12.04 or 13.04
... it is a 64-bit capable laptop, but it doesn't advertise that much.
I will bcc some friends in case they have some advice as well, but
basically I would like to have a minimally tampered with windows 8, and to
be able to do most of my work on linux; I'm wondering if every time windows
8 would update, it might mess up my linux install. When I say minimally
tampered windows 8, I mean I know it is horribly spying and so on, but I
don't want to disable all those features and then have lots of
applications, software, and services not work, although I would like to
minimize spying or interfering with my work (which sometimes is in the
sphere of activism). Hopefully there is a happy balance I can reach.
I can start a new thread if that is best, but this thread sounded pretty
similar.
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Peter Rofner
<profner [ at ] richmondnursery [ dot ] com>wrote:
If I recall correctly, the USB stick needs to have an EFI boot kernel or
else it can't boot. I used the System Rescue CD image on a USB stick to
boot EFI and install Gentoo on an Lenovo Helix and a Lenovo server and
it recognized the stick automatically in EFI mode. Either that or change
the BIOS back to MBR mode to boot a traditional non-EFI stick.
It takes more fiddling to get EFI to boot, but it is pretty slick once
it works. REFInd works good for dual-booting Windows and Linux via EFI.
Peter
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 10:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
Most ASUS laptops give boot choice if you hit ESC while splash is
showing. At
least all my 5 do.
but all that does is dump me into the BIOS, and let me work my way
to the boot menu, where i can apparently "Create" a new boot entry,
but i have no idea what to add there -- the only example i see is this
long, incomprehensible string that looks like a device identifier, and
i don't know what to do from there.
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