kero4
January 21st, 2013, 10:30 PM
Guys,
After my initial post and testing the laptop in the store, I purchased Toshiba L855-S5112 with the I3 processor. All hardware worked in the store so I was happy with that plus it has a normal touchpad, not one of those advanced ones, I forgot what they were called.
So, cleaned up windows in case I want to us it occasionally which will be rare at most.
Steps thus far - disabled secure boot, disabled fast boot.
#1 the only way I can get the laptop to boot into lubuntu (on flash drive) was to set the boot to CSM. If I leave the setting on UEFI, it does not even see the flash drive with the lubuntu install on it. If left on CSM and flash drive not installed, laptop does not boot into windows.
Now I tried to boot via UEFI menu into the USB flash drive and I got a pop up about not finding a boot device (can't remember the exact error that showed up) despite usb being set as the first boot device on startup. The usb flash drive works in CSM mode and on non UEFI systems.
Question: how do I rectify this???
#2 I assume I should shrink the windows partition using disk management option by right clicking on COMPUTER, manage, disk management. The partition I wills shrink is the NTFS partition.
#3 Llubuntu "does not support UEFI Secure Boot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI_Secure_Boot), unlike Ubuntu 12.10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_12.10), which would have allowed it to run on hardware designed for Windows 8 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8). This feature will likely be included in the next release of Lubuntu.[73] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu#cite_note-Lubuntu1210relnotes-73) In the meantime Lubuntu can be run on UEFI secure boot hardware but turning off"
Question: does this statement above affect #1 above, as I have already turned off secure boot.
#4 I thought I read somewhere that I should create the lubuntu flash drive in UEFI mode, is this done through using unetbootin in windows vs creating in lubuntu like I have already done?
#5 granted I get to the point where I can install lubuntu on the hard drive, where does the lubuntu boot loader go in terms of partitions.
I have the following:
2 recovery partitions, 1 EFI partition and the large NTFS partition.
Once I get these answered I think I should be able to get this all taken care of.
If I missed anything, please let me know.
Thanks for the help.
After my initial post and testing the laptop in the store, I purchased Toshiba L855-S5112 with the I3 processor. All hardware worked in the store so I was happy with that plus it has a normal touchpad, not one of those advanced ones, I forgot what they were called.
So, cleaned up windows in case I want to us it occasionally which will be rare at most.
Steps thus far - disabled secure boot, disabled fast boot.
#1 the only way I can get the laptop to boot into lubuntu (on flash drive) was to set the boot to CSM. If I leave the setting on UEFI, it does not even see the flash drive with the lubuntu install on it. If left on CSM and flash drive not installed, laptop does not boot into windows.
Now I tried to boot via UEFI menu into the USB flash drive and I got a pop up about not finding a boot device (can't remember the exact error that showed up) despite usb being set as the first boot device on startup. The usb flash drive works in CSM mode and on non UEFI systems.
Question: how do I rectify this???
#2 I assume I should shrink the windows partition using disk management option by right clicking on COMPUTER, manage, disk management. The partition I wills shrink is the NTFS partition.
#3 Llubuntu "does not support UEFI Secure Boot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI_Secure_Boot), unlike Ubuntu 12.10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_12.10), which would have allowed it to run on hardware designed for Windows 8 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8). This feature will likely be included in the next release of Lubuntu.[73] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu#cite_note-Lubuntu1210relnotes-73) In the meantime Lubuntu can be run on UEFI secure boot hardware but turning off"
Question: does this statement above affect #1 above, as I have already turned off secure boot.
#4 I thought I read somewhere that I should create the lubuntu flash drive in UEFI mode, is this done through using unetbootin in windows vs creating in lubuntu like I have already done?
#5 granted I get to the point where I can install lubuntu on the hard drive, where does the lubuntu boot loader go in terms of partitions.
I have the following:
2 recovery partitions, 1 EFI partition and the large NTFS partition.
Once I get these answered I think I should be able to get this all taken care of.
If I missed anything, please let me know.
Thanks for the help.