luishasbon
April 4th, 2013, 04:27 AM
Hello dear community, I haven't posted for a while. I'll try to be short but detailed. My laptop: Acer Aspire 5560 sb 6 13 Quad Core a8 3500m GPU: AMD 6620G.
Came with Win 7 preinstalled. Took Gparted, erase it all even the recovery. I wanted to dual boot, so as this laptop is UEFI, created a new disk table, type GPT, installed windows 7 no problem at all, when I tried to install ubuntu, it did NOT detected my Win 7 partitions, so I tried dmraid -rE, nothing changed, The only way it was able to see the partitions was with partedmagic: ie. Fix the protected MBR, Win 7 installs, after that ubuntu installer gets to see the win 7 partitions, ok so I installed, it went all ok, after reboot(which btw didnt go well, because ubuntu hangs on shutdown and reboot, even with acpi=off acpi=noirq, init 6, init 0 shutdown -h poweroff, etc). When grub showed up. It only showed ubuntu options. so I went to do some research, found this. rEFInd. Installed it updated the grub, and it started to show a win7 option, but when i select it, it goes back to grub. So this is by far, what I have manage to do, to get a dual boot GPT uefi install in an acer aspire 5560 sb 613 with EFI boot. BTW: I think the hanging in shutdown and reboot its due to the kernel, as 3.8xx version even in arch linux, fedora and others dont get to handle this well too. Hope this give you information and we can work this out. Best Regards.:guitar:
Came with Win 7 preinstalled. Took Gparted, erase it all even the recovery. I wanted to dual boot, so as this laptop is UEFI, created a new disk table, type GPT, installed windows 7 no problem at all, when I tried to install ubuntu, it did NOT detected my Win 7 partitions, so I tried dmraid -rE, nothing changed, The only way it was able to see the partitions was with partedmagic: ie. Fix the protected MBR, Win 7 installs, after that ubuntu installer gets to see the win 7 partitions, ok so I installed, it went all ok, after reboot(which btw didnt go well, because ubuntu hangs on shutdown and reboot, even with acpi=off acpi=noirq, init 6, init 0 shutdown -h poweroff, etc). When grub showed up. It only showed ubuntu options. so I went to do some research, found this. rEFInd. Installed it updated the grub, and it started to show a win7 option, but when i select it, it goes back to grub. So this is by far, what I have manage to do, to get a dual boot GPT uefi install in an acer aspire 5560 sb 613 with EFI boot. BTW: I think the hanging in shutdown and reboot its due to the kernel, as 3.8xx version even in arch linux, fedora and others dont get to handle this well too. Hope this give you information and we can work this out. Best Regards.:guitar: