[ubuntu-studio-users] Problem with Ubuntu Studio install (dual boot, CPU has UEFI, Windows 8.1)

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El domingo, 22 de diciembre de 2013, Henry W. Peters escribió:

>   Below is a post I put in the Ubuntu Studio forum, it basically outlines
> my problem... & raises question... (hope it's ok to repost here)
>
> A (perhaps) more simple question, that may help, is when installing Ubuntu
> Studio 13.10, AMD64:
>
> Can one aim specifically, from the installer, where Grub 2 is installed
> (i.e., NOT on my UEFI... HOPEFULLY at the MBR of the disk I will be
> installing it on; i.r., an external usb 3.0 hd)?
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Henry
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2194958
> Problem with Ubuntu Studio install (dual boot, CPU has UEFI, Windows 8.1)
>
> *Situ:*
>
> AMD64, HP Pavillion-500-046 desktop, does dual boot with Windows 8.1 (2TB
> internal hd), which has a UEFI booting scheme, & (presently) Linux Mint 16,
> Mate-Petra on a 90 GB portion of a 2 TB external usb 3 LaCie hd.
>
> *What I tried to do*:
>
> As my internal hd was partitioned in approximately two equal partitions...
> the* second one was formatted to ext4 & had an install of Mint 16, that
> at first functioned, until I messed up the '/etc/fstab' trying to get my
> external usb hd to mount...* (& I accessed it by having the rEFInd Boot
> Manager CD in my HP UEFI CD/DVD disk drive:
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html ).
>
> I tried out the Ubuntu Studio live DVD... look very suitable to (some of)
> my actual needs, so I tried to install Ubuntu Studio on the internal Linux,
> ext4 partition (I couldn't get it to install on a little portable usb 3
> Toshiba 500 GB hd, the installer kept complaining about my mount point
> being external to... (?), which was "/" on the device /dev/sdc in this
> case).
>
> Ok, so the installer choices I thought I was making, was something like on
> the previously afore mentioned Mint-Petra in the internal hd (keeping in
> mind, my Windows 8.1 was the first set of partitions): erasing Petra,
> installing Ubuntu Studio; *the installer did NOT say anything about
> removing Windows (!!)... but not only did the install wipe out Windows...
> cleared the whole disk... UEFI then, not available... got the "grub>" (or
> is it ">grub" (whatever, dang thing wouldn't mount/boot anything ] .*
>
> I managed to recover Windows 8 (& upgrade again to 8.1) & restored some of
> my Windows personal data... & now my internal hd is back to all NTFS.
>
> Of course, this leaves me MORE than a little apprehensive about what this
> installer will do, if I try another route, which I think I am (hoping) to
> be more prepared, physically in terms of space, to try another install;*
> NOW on my EXTERNAL usb...* (with the other/s for additional storage...
> that is, has been, all too often for me, an "ownership" issue... *In
> other words, need to have it mount, & be read & write-able.. a serious.s
> problem I have been having: which raises a SERIOUS question (for me, least
> wise): Why the heck are Linux formatted disks so much more difficult to
> mount & utilize (from Linux) than WINDOWS (i.e., NTFS formatted)?????*
>
> Any help advice in these regards *will* be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Henry04
>
> P.s., I tried booting the Ubuntu Studio live DVD with 'secure boot'
> enabled... i.e., through UEFI... it would get as far as the opening menu,
> but try Ubuntu Studio live, the CPU would hang at a blank window... didn't
> try to install... so I can not report about that... but my install that I
> try to discuss above, was with 'secure boot' disabled, & 'legacy' enabled
> (as well as 'fast boot' disabled').
>
> P.p.s., I installed grub 2 on my current Linux Mint OS... on the usb hd
> Mint resides on, & it works, to access Mint (at least, I have not tried to
> boot Windows from grub, but grub apparently recognizes it).
>
> Hi. May be it can help:
http://lignux.com/habilitar-el-dual-boot-en-sistemas-efi/
It's web page in spanish that teach U how to enable Win8 after installing
linux. Good luck


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