New answers tagged uefi
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I tried the Ubuntu Studio as well as Ubuntu - both fail to start in UEFI mode using the Live DVD image.
One of the workarounds (I haven't done this yet myself) is to install Ubuntu in BIOS mode using a separate dedicated boot partition on your GPT partitioned disk, not update any packages during installation or thereafter until you have replaced grub and ...
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You have to create a bootable USB flash using the ISO, and not just mounting it. I recommend that you use UNetbootin, and have a look at Install Ubuntu 13.04
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I had the same issue. Ubuntu is nice because it's used by a lot of people. Linux Mint is nice because a lot of stuff works out of the box. I ended up using Debian.
The best advice I can give you is to try it all and see if you can make it work. In time you will notice simularities between the solutions and you will get a better understanding. The key is ...
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You are using MS-DOS partition table created by Windows 7, and the maximum allowed primary partitions are 4. There are no extended partitions on your system. So when you select "Install along side windows" it tries to create a primary partition and fails.
You should make a new partition table like I've done on my HDD.
My partition table with /dev/sda1 as ...
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You're getting a bit mislead here.
The problem was with certain systems that use UEFI. It has since been solved. Other systems were (and remain) unaffected. So, if your system isn't from Samsung and doesn't come with Windows 8, you're likely in the clear.
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The rEFIND boot manager let me boot again, see http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/, try it on a bootable medium. It showed that Ubuntu 13.04 works fine when it is found by the boot manager. It may also provide clues to what went wrong and provide a long-term solution.
Background: an attempt to install Ubuntu 13.04 on a working installation with 12.04 and ...
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I had some trouble while installing Ubuntu 13.04 on a Lenovo ThinkCentre, which is not directly related to your question, but you might see some smiliarities here. First, removing Win8 causes issues as the standard Lenovo boot process asks for a Windows entry in the EFI boot partition - just about the entry, not about 'real' data. I did this via command line ...
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Disable SecureBoot in your BIOS
run Boot-Repair --> Advanced Options --> tick Restore EFI backups --> Apply. Indicate the new URL that will appear. Reboot and indicate if Windows boots.
Run Boot-Repair's Recommended Repair, and write on a paper the new URL that will appear.
Reboot the PC. GRUB will appear. Indicate if Ubuntu and Windows can boot from the ...
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It did do the boot repair; the entry entitled Windows UEFI bkpbootmgfw.efi should boot Windows. If it doesn't, I recommend you try the following procedure:
Disable Secure Boot in your firmware. Unfortunately, the details of how to do this vary from one computer to another, so I can't be more specific.
Use the Boot Repair tool again, but click "Advanced ...
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In theory, Ubuntu 12.04.2 (but not 12.04), 12.10, and 13.04 all support Secure Boot via a program called shim, and their installers should boot with Secure Boot active. In practice, there seem to be a lot of problems with that. I'm not sure if this is because of configuration errors, because of the fact that Ubuntu is still using the old shim version 0.1, or ...
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There is another step-by-step guide Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed UEFI Supported Windows 8 system that helped a lot of people (if the "likes" means that it helped).
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First, I recommend you go into your firmware and disable Secure Boot, if you haven't already done so. This isn't always required, but Secure Boot seems to cause a lot of problems with many Ubuntu installations, so IMHO it's best to disable it. This will not solve the specific problem you're reporting, though.
Second, do one of the following things:
In ...
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On my Windows 7 hard disk, win7 ignored the EFI fat32 system partition, and made a new 100MB partition in unallocated space at the very end of the disk. To prevent this windows should be installed on a fully partitioned disk, without unallocated space.
I understand that windows wants to be the first OS at the start of the disk, but I have no personal ...
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Theoretically, you can format your 3TB disk to work with your old motherboard with BIOS via partitioning it with a GPT partition table rather than MSDOS. However, it's not totally foolproof. Some BIOSes attempt to validate partition tables when they should not and that can cause problems because of the "protective MBR" that a GPT-partitioned disk uses.
Do ...
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I haven't checked the latest Ubuntu release, but the last one I did check did not include EFI support in the 32-bit installation medium. You can add it yourself, though. The medium will need a FAT partition (it may already use FAT; I don't recall offhand) with the boot loader stored at EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi on the FAT filesystem. Ubuntu uses GRUB 2 by ...
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First, the "binary is whitelisted" message is displayed by the program that Ubuntu uses to deal with Secure Boot (namely, shim); it indicates that the follow-on program (typically GRUB) is properly signed and therefore trusted. There's no need to "whitelist the ubuntu efi in your bios," as bodhi.zazen suggests.
Second, the "launch CSM" option you mention is ...
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The Boot Repair script has clearly failed; you most emphatically do have an EFI System Partition (ESP), and as you say, your computer does seem to be set up for an EFI-mode boot. The output you've posted (which obviates the need for the parted output that geezanansa requested) lacks information on what EFI boot loaders are installed -- probably because the ...
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In an UEFI PC, ubuntu identifies such PC and while installation suggest the type and nature of partitions you need to create to work in UEFI mode.
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The Grub2/installer does not always manage EFI. Best option is to boot the live CD and use boot repair.
See : How do I install Windows 7 alongside a pre-existing Ubuntu installation?
Different question, same solution.
Post the url bootrepair gives you if it does not work.
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Ubuntu 13.04 will indeed work on a UEFI system and create it's own partitions to work properly during install... If you have a 64-bit processor be sure to download and install Ubuntu 64-bit to be sure...
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You got everything right, but you need to use the 32-bit version of Ubuntu, because this tablet comes with a 32-bit Intel Atom processor.
http://ark.intel.com/products/70105/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z2760-1MB-Cache-1_80-GHz
However I never heard of 32-bit UEFI BIOS, I guess it must be compatibility mode (CSM).
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I have to say it is very frustrating to see all the these tools (boot-repair, rEFInd, etc.) being recommended over and over and again and again, while the cause is unclear and the actual issues being treated like witchcraft.
Food for thought: Running 100 tools while not understanding the issue, might in some cases solve your problem, but might also not ...
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First, your partition type codes are messed up. Your first three partitions are all flagged as EFI System Partitions (ESPs), but only the first one should be of that type. Your partition #2 should almost certainly be of "Microsoft Basic Data" type. I'm not sure about your partition #3. You can change partition type codes with gdisk, using its t option. Be ...
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I found the solution: If grub has no configuration in the EFI partition it seems to look under /boot/grub.
As I crashed my whole EFI setup, I had to reinstall windows and ubuntu once to get all running, but now it seems that all is set up correctly.
PS: boot-repair crashed my EFI partition. I was no more able to boot any of the EFI boot options. ...
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I ran into this exact problem. I looked around for a technical solution, but suprisingly, the built-in Windows 8 "Reset your PC" functionality did the trick.
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-restore-and-reset-windows-8-to-factory-settings/
I ran "Reset your PC", which replaced the Grub bootloader with the original. Created a new user account and used the ...
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First, I recommend you enter your firmware setup utility (usually done by pressing Del or a function key just after powering on the computer) and disabling Secure Boot. Unfortunately, the details of how to do this vary from one computer to another, so I can't be very precise about how to do it.
If that doesn't work, then you might try downloading the USB ...
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You may have a similar VAIO to what I have. If you have a partial SSD, then your hard drive is setup as a FakeRAID 0 and Ubuntu doesn't support it. You'll have to fully wipe your hard drive and start over with whichever OS(s) you want.
You still have to disable Secure Boot and enable Legacy Boot, but once you have a hard drive in there that Ubuntu can read, ...
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Please download super Grub and follow its directions. I never leave home without it. Very helpful when the grub menu does not show up.
You'll have to load to a cd and boot it up. Just follow the instructions that come with it.
It can also be used to fix windows as well. Since you can only boot into windows 8 you want to pick the linux fix.
Play around ...
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Go to your Bios suppr or del when you turn on your computer, and when in Bios look for "network stack" and set it to "enable."
Also look for "iommu controller" and set it to "enable."
Press f10 to save and reset.
Maybe go on to the Realtek web site and download Linux drivers:
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You can make USB bootable drives that work with the EFI system, I'm not as seasoned as some of y'all so I figured out a way that is easy and works :)
In a machine that has the EFI bios, insert a CD/DVD with Parted Magic (I had it on a HIREN Boot CD that I made into a CD instead of a USB) Boot from that CD/DVD.
Once you are in Parted Magic, insert an empty ...
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A bug in 3.8 series kernels prevents creation of EFI variables (at least on many Asus and Gigabyte motherboards) and thus efibootmgr is unable to create any boot options (the utility itself simply quits quietly without displaying any messages but you can find this error in dmesg or by strace efibootmgr).
Unfortunately Canonical didn't fix this issue before ...
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you may want the mini iso, it is useless without Internet Access as you need it to install anything
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD - advanced users only
or the alternate cd
http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
If you ...
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After much digging, I realized that the source of my confusion is the fact that Ubuntu was installed with WUBI. Also, the multi-boot via UEFI did something weird where it seems only one partition was used. Somehow, Ubuntu and windows boots from a single partition under a single SSD marked as an MBR.
Furthermore, I did not have enough space to do a clone of ...
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The errors with Kubuntu and Lubuntu sound like one of two things is happening:
The installer may have booted in BIOS mode rather than EFI mode. Given your partitioning, the installer would then try to install a BIOS-mode GRUB 2; but on a GPT disk, GRUB 2 likes to have a BIOS Boot Partition on the disk, and your system lacks that, so the installation might ...
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Mount the USB flash drive's first partition (the ESP) at /boot/efi and issue the following commands (changing /boot/efi if you mount somewhere else):
cd /boot/efi/EFI
sudo mv ubuntu boot
sudo mv boot/grubx64.efi boot/bootx64.efi
cd ~
You can then unmount the USB flash drive and it should work.
EDIT: Since the above didn't work, try something more ...
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The last I checked, Ubuntu's version of GRUB 2 places a GRUB binary on the EFI System Partition (ESP), which is mounted at /boot/efi in Linux. The GRUB configuration files (grub.cfg and various support files) remain in /boot/grub, which is on another partition. (IMO, this is a bad design, but that's another matter....) Thus, if you use Ubuntu's GRUB binary, ...
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Your situation may be different, but I was trying to install using a DVD in an IDE DVD-ROM drive onto an IDE HD. The unlikely solution for me was to change the jumpers on the back of both drives to where the DVD-ROM drive was the master and the HD was the slave (both were previously set to be assigned by BIOS). Again, worked for me, hope it works for you. ...
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I'm running this laptop with Ubuntu GNOME 13.04.
The first step is to disable SSD as a cache from Windows, using Intel Matrix Storage software. Yes, it can't be done through the firmware. Without that, you won't be able to use more than 8GB on the SSD.
If you want to boot automatically in UEFI, you need to disable Legacy. Currently, Linux is hitting bug ...
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Same sort of situation here, also MSI gx60. I opted to just leave Windows on UEFI though and install Ubuntu on Legacy, I just go into the bios and change the boot method when I want to boot the other OS. I guess it takes a little longer to switch this way though.
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syslinux.cfg must be a text file, not binary, here is the SYSLINUX documentation. Can you just borrow a working file, or create a new one with an entry
label live
menu label Start Linux
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz --
(remove the ...
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A disk that shows up as empty in the Ubuntu installer but that you know holds partitions is usually a symptom of one of two problems:
Leftover RAID data on a disk that's no longer being used for RAID. You can often get rid of such data by typing sudo dmraid -r -E /dev/sda; however, you should be 100% positive that you're not using RAID before you do this. ...
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If I understand correctly, the GRUB option called "Windows UEFI recovery bkpbootmgfw.efi" does boot Windows, but you've got additional GRUB entries that don't work. If so, that's working the way it's supposed to work -- or at least, the way the Boot Repair tool is supposed to set things up. (It's not a very good solution, and I have more to say on the ...
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I have the same problem with my AMD A10-4600M MSI GX60 netbook. I managed to install ubuntu but i had to replace original windows8 with other windows8 installed in Legacy mode so i could install ubuntu in legacy too.
This solution is only temporary, till i find how to install ubuntu in UEFI :( I hope it helps you temporarily...
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I strongly suspect that you have not installed Ubuntu in BIOS mode. The reason I say this is that you report that your "select boot device" boot menu has an option called "ubuntu." If you were booting Ubuntu in BIOS (aka CSM or legacy) mode, this wouldn't be the case; the option would say "boot from HD" or some such generic description, since the firmware ...
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Such an update should pose no more of a problem than on an earlier computer or earlier updates (say, 11.04 to 11.10 on a BIOS-based computer). Of course, should doesn't always pan out in the real world.
In theory, you should (there's that word again) have been able to install Ubuntu 13.04 with Secure Boot enabled; since version 12.10 (including 12.04.2, but ...
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You can find your solutions here > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2139687
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I used: sudo intel_reg_write 0x70008 0xC4000050
Using 0xC4002000 still had some transparency problems. For example half-transparent terminal window had still 16bit colors.
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As Joris said,turn of "Secure Boot" and install 12.04.2 or newer version. Remember to use 64-bit version :)
Have installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit dualboot with Win8 myself..
Read here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
Its not recommended to install with WUBI..
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UEFI is a BIOS-replacement (to be short); so no you can't remove UEFI.
What you can do is switch the secure boot option off in UEFI ; this will be enough for having Ubuntu after all on your system.
There is no need to switch to a Windows 7, it will lead you to illegal actions and why should you? W8 provides all you need from Windows (this is not sarcastic ...
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Installing or upgrading an OS always poses some risk of causing problems. Bugs, hardware failures, subtle inconsistencies or problems in the existing installation, and so on can all combine with an update to create a huge headache. That said, such problems are rare.
Just to be sure, back up your important user data -- the worst cases I've heard of involve ...
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