Thanks. Will try and report back. I found an item on installing LM 18.3 where fellow had same problem and found a weird workaround (run gparted during install, just to scan disks, then exit. ?? Will see what happens). Best, JN On 2018-02-19 01:03 PM, Scott Murphy wrote: > Well, disabling secure boot won’t break anything, so you can test away with it off. If you want to re-enble it, you have > a few hoops to jump through in order to tell secure boot you have a signed linux boot to select from. > > There are a lot of HOWTOs on getting secure boot to work with a linux kernel, just not sure if it is worth the trouble. > I have a Dell XPS developer edition laptop that can with Ubuntu on it direct fro Dell. It has secure boot disabled right > out of the box. > >> On Feb 19, 2018, at 12:53 PM, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com <mailto:profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>> wrote: >> >> Scott pointed out that EFI does not have 4 partition limit. >> >> So I went ahead and resized. Win10 still worked. >> >> Then tried Linux Mint install (live USB works fine). Made main and swap partitions >> as sda5 and sda6. But on restart got Secure Boot Violation. >> >> Tried again, watching progress, and GRUB install crashed. Win10 still working, but it's disk >> management tool does NOT show the sda5 or sda6, and Win10 partition still original size. >> >> Also gparted gives libparted warning: The driver descriptor says the block size is >> 2048 bytes, but linux says it is 512 bytes. >> >> Wondering if I need to turn off secure boot and allow Linux to install 3rd party drivers, >> but I rather would like to avoid that. >> >> Ideas? >> >> JN >> >> On 2018-02-19 11:56 AM, Rick Leir wrote: >>> >>> Hi John >>> You would be doing the change to extended for one of the partitions using fdisk or similar? Yes, risky, but the risk >>> is all in your fingers. Can you practice on some other surplus PC? >>> >>> About the backup to removeable disk: I would prefer to use dd for this, just because I know it better. >>> >>> One option which might be less risky: install Ubuntu, and let it do the partition changes. It knows how to shrink the >>> windows filesystem and set up the partitions. Then install Mint on the Ubuntu partition. Maybe you can go directly to >>> Mint. >>> >>> It has been a while since I have monkeyed with partitions, so I hope I said this all correctly. >>> Cheers --Rick >>> >>> On February 19, 2018 10:51:30 AM EST, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com <mailto:profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>> wrote: >>>> Background (skip to QUERY if you wish): >>>> >>>> While in Florida recently, my wife and I spotted a nice 11.6" Dell >>>> Inspiron >>>> for $300 US. The design is "old", with 500GB spinning disk, 4 GB Ram, >>>> quad >>>> core processor that isn't terribly powerful. However, it is a size Mary >>>> likes >>>> for travel, and enough disk for lots of family photos and videos. (Her >>>> previous >>>> Asus EEE 1225B was similar, but heavier, and suffered an unfortunate >>>> collision >>>> with a tile floor that has made it only partly functional.) We've tried >>>> Android >>>> tablet, but the key layout on Android -- and we've looked around at >>>> several -- >>>> makes doing email and stuff awkward. And they don't store much. >>>> >>>> It has Windows 10 and works reasonably well with this. We'd like to >>>> keep >>>> the Win10 in dual boot. Sometimes useful to test things. >>>> >>>> For safety, using the Windows 10 recovery disk tool >>>> (Control Panel / System & Security > Security & Maintenance > Recovery) >>>> created a recovery USB on a 16 GB Lexar flash key. >>>> >>>> Also downloaded Clonezilla clonezilla-live-20170905-zesty-amd64.iso and >>>> used mintstick tool >>>> to install on a USB key (only uses about 275 MB). This is in the >>>> alternate >>>> repository for Clonezilla and allows UEFI booting. The regular "stable" >>>> choice did not >>>> boot. >>>> >>>> Made a whole disk image using this and put it on an external USB drive >>>> from the Dell. >>>> >>>> >>>> QUERY: >>>> >>>> The partition structure is as follows: >>>> >>>> Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors >>>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >>>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes >>>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >>>> Disklabel type: gpt >>>> Disk identifier: 3BBC8E19-46F4-4AB6-B9DA-7B3B4AB0A0DF >>>> >>>> Device Start End Sectors Size Type >>>> /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System >>>> /dev/sda2 1026048 1288191 262144 128M Microsoft reserved >>>> /dev/sda3 1288192 975849471 974561280 464.7G Microsoft basic data >>>> /dev/sda4 975849472 976771071 921600 450M Windows recovery >>>> environment >>>> >>>> Unless I'm really mis-reading this, I've got 4 primary partitions, so >>>> need to >>>> convert one to Extended/Logical. Some forum comments say this can be >>>> risky. >>>> Does anyone have recommendations or experience? >>>> >>>> - Some net comments suggest using Windows tool to do this. It appears >>>> that the >>>> MiniTool Partition Wizard (https://www.partitionwizard.com) can do >>>> this. >>>> >>>> - In linux there appears to be fixparts from >>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/files/gptfdisk/1.0.1/fixparts-binaries/ >>>> >>>> Other choices? >>>> >>>> My current plan is >>>> >>>> - to convert the 465G particion with the free version of Partition >>>> Wizard >>>> - test Win10 boots >>>> - use partimg from liveUSB to image that converted partition >>>> - shrink the Win10 partition >>>> - test booting again >>>> - use partimg again to save (replace previous save) >>>> - install Linux (Mint 18.3 Sylvia is what Mary is used to) to the >>>> freed-up space. >>>> >>>> Comments and suggestions welcome. >>>> >>>> Best, JN >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Linux mailing list >>>> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >>>> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > -- > Scott Murphy, CISSP > Principal Consultant | Arrow-Eye Consulting Inc. > 112 Springcreek Cres. | Kanata | ON | K2M 2K8 | Canada > C: 613-769-9363 | GPG: A8DC6128C3A0E110 > > email: scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com <mailto:scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com> | web: http://www.arrow-eye.com <http://www.arrow-eye.com/> > > > > > > >