Dual booting Win 8 and Ubuntu 13.10 in uefi mode on a Toshiba laptop

[Liam Proven]

On 24 October 2013 23:01, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> I finally got this to work.  The problem was in uefi mode the live dvd would
> not boot to a usable desktop when I choose to try Ubuntu.  I would either
> hang at black screen or end up in tty1.  What worked was to choose to
> *install* Ubuntu instead of *trying* Ubuntu. Once I did that I got to the
> install screen and everything just worked after that. I have tried so many
> things over the last couple of days I don't remember if I had to use
> nomodeset or not to get it to work.
>
> When I restarted I got the grub menu. Ubuntu would start but Win 8 would
> not. I went here [1] and got boot repair and followed it's instructions and
> now I can dual boot Win 8 and Ubuntu.
>
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
>
> This was also helpful:
>
> [2]
> http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/09/install-ubuntu-linux-alongside-windows.html
>
> One thing I noticed about Win 8 is you can install it but not activate it
> and it is still usable.  When I installed it I made sure I did not have an
> internet connection and said no to setting up wireless and no to activation.
> I could change settings and use the control panel.  I was able to use
> windows to shrink it's C: drive to install Ubuntu as recommended in [2]. The
> only I found I could not do without activating it was to "personalize it".
> I didn't spend a lot of time with it so there may be more things that need
> it to be activated to work but it did what I needed.
>
> Hopefully this is helpful someone else in the same situation.


Oh, well done! Glad to hear it!

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