Hi there,
I'm trying to install 14.04 on a new Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus (NP940X3G-K06US, specifically), and I've run into some issues. First and foremost, secureboot and fastboot are turned off.
I can successfully install Ubuntu when the BIOS is in CSM, however UEFI isn't playing ball; no matter what I try it refuses to recognise the bootloader. I would be hapy with CSM, but there appear to be a few driver issues in it (the resolution does some odd stuff).
Here are my attempts so far. Start with an empty, unformatted drive. I've tried all combinations of the following.
Making a new partition table and:
- Follow the general wisdom and partition the drive as such:
sda1: 100MB FAT32 EFI boot stuff
sda2: 124GB ext4 mounted as /
sda3: 4GB swap space
- Partion without the EFI boot partition
Then installing with the BIOS:
- Set to CSM and then switching to UEFI
- Set to UEFI
Running boot-repair (from the boot-repair image on a liveUSB), and:
- Doing a simple-repair
- Doing an advanced repair and manually specifying the EFI boot partition.
And yet the damn bootloader still isn't being found. Does anyone have experience with this particular model of laptop, or any thoughts in general about how to get it recognised?
A few questions:
- Does it matter what type the partition table is? (msdos or gpt)
- Is it necessary to have a separate EFI boot partition?
- Should I ditch grub altogether and use an alternative bootloader?
Cheers
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