installing on a Windows 8.1
Gary J. Kirkpatrick
garyartista at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 05:02:23 UTC 2014
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/09/14 22:49, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick
>>> <garyartista at gmail.com <mailto:garyartista at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Just wondering if you all have a preferred guide for installing on a
>>> W 8.1 machine (an HP HP 210 G1) .
>>>
>>> So far I have found 2 guides.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/09/install-ubuntu-linux-alongside-windows.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/05/install-ubuntu-1404-alongside-windows.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions
>>>
>>> garyk
>>>
>>>
>>> I followed the second of these and still I can not get grub to come up.
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> gary
>>
>>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Quick thought have you tried holding the <shift> key to bring up Grub?
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Pete S
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>> --
>
> Yes, Pete, I did. Noluck.
>
> gary
>
I also tried
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/EasyBCD.shtml. Now I
get a boot menu with ubuntu but it will not load. Error message reads
windows failed to start .... efit/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
the application or operating system being loaded is missing a file.
I also enabled legacy support in bios , that did not help. I disabled
legacy again, did not help.
I can run windows just fine through the boot loader so I have not totally
screwed things up.
As an alternative I would wipe windows and just use Ubuntu. So if anyone
has instructions they recommend.
thanks
garyk
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