installation of 13.04 on Asus s550c touch screen

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am trying to install 13.04 Ubuntu on the s550c.  I chose the petition I
> created in W8 for the install.  The message I am getting is:
>
> The petition table format in use on your disks normally requires you to
> create a separate partition for boot loader code.  This partition should be
> marked for use as a 'Reserved Bios boot area' and should be at least 1 MB
> in size.  Note that htis is not the same as a partition mounted on /boot
>
> If you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct this error,
> boot loader installation may fail later, although it may still be possible
> to install the boot loader to a partition.
>
>
>
> gparted shows
> sda1 fat 32 system 300 mib
> sda2 ntfs recovery 900 mib
> sda 3 unknown
> sda4 ntfs OS 279 gib 37gib used
> sda5 ntfs data 198.99gib 2 gib used
> sda7 ext 4 I made this in windows for the Ubuntu install
> sda6 ntfs Restore 20 gib 11.69 used
>
> Thanks
>
> Any advice on what to do?
>
> garyk
>
>
Hold off answering-  I was using a 32 bit version of 13.04


garyk
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