Dual boot with Windows 8 on Toshiba failed

[Wes James]

I had a user ask me to put linux on a laptop,  I put xubuntu 13.04 on, but
had to disable uefi to boot in to xubuntu then enable uefi to boot in to
win8.  If you just want ubuntu, try disabling uefi in the bios.

-wes


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> In another thread I received some advice on installing Ubuntu 13.10 on a
> Toshiba laptop with Win 8. At first it seemed to work, but I did notice
> some oddities along the way.
>
> At first I tried to install without setting up Win 8, when that didn't
> work I setup and booted to Win 8. Then I started the Ubuntu install.  I
> thought I would see the "install next to" option but I didn't.  The
> installer said it could not detect another OS, so I choose the "other"
> option.  I was able to create free space and then primary partitions of /,
> /home and swap.  At this point the install seemed to proceed normally.
>
> The first thing I noticed was none of the LibreOffice apps would run.  I
> would see the logo and hear some disk activity but then the logo would
> disappear and the app never would open.
>
> Then I started getting freezes that required a power off.
>
> I noticed that updates were available so I installed them.  After the
> required reboot I was never able to boot Ubuntu again though I did boot Win
> 8 once.  I tried the advanced option in the grub menu and noticed that
> there were now 2 kernels. 3.11.30-11 generic and 3.11.0-8 generic. I tried
> both of them and both of their recovery options with no success.
>
> I decided to reinstall 13.10. I booted the Live DVD and choose to install
> 13.10. I picked the option to reinstall 13.10. The install started and then
> I got a warning about not trying to write to sda2 & sda3. I clicked ok and
> then got a warning about not being able to create swap on sda3, I continued
> and then was presented with the install screen that said there was no OS
> present. At this point I selected quit and restarted the machine.
>
> When  machine turned on the first screen I see is:
>
> >>>Start PXE over IPv4, Press [ESC] to EXIT
>
> then:
>
> No bootable device -- Please restart system
>
> I saw a suggestion on the web to install and run boot-repar, it did not
> help.
>
> I guess if I can't get this fixed I will just use the whole disk for
> Ubuntu as I doubt I would use Win 8 anyway. I had planned to keep it around
> as after all I did pay for it.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>
>
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