Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 8 on a Lenovo U410

[Gordonbp531]

Hi!

I have a Lenovo U410 on which I would like to dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04.

I've run it up on a live flash drive, everything works OK.

When it comes to the actual install I'm a bit nervous as although I'm fairly competent with both Linux and Windows, I've never had a machine with SSD/HDD in a "false" raid like this before, it's only two months old, and I've never had a machine where I didn't have a Windows install disk!

The installer sees the 500 GB HDD, so I assume I can create a partition and install Ubuntu on that.

Where do I put the boot loader though? It's telling me it wants to put it on the SSD.

Is this where it should go?

Are there any detailed steps listed anywhere?

I'm assuming that because the installer sees all the partitions and disks, I don't need to turn off UEFI or RAID or anything else.....



Thanks!

[arnarg]

These instructions (http://noelkurian.tk/2013/03/dual-booting-windows-7-and-archlinux-on-lenovo-ideapad-u410/) should work for ubuntu as well. If you decide to try it I would appreciate if you could tell me how well Ubuntu runs on it, I'm thinking about buying myself one of those.

EDIT: To install Grub on the FAT32 partition instead of MBR you should use the dropdown list on the bottom of the window where you select which partition you want to install ubuntu on. I'm 99% sure of this.

[oldfred]

You still want to install grub to the efi FAT32 partition and it should do that automatically. But unless they have fixed something grub sees the RAID which is what Intel uses for the SRT or SSD cache for Windows. And with the RAID grub will not correctly install.

lenovo u310 - install to SSD
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2129157
Lenovo IdeaCentre K410 Pentium 64-bit
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2129961

Discovered that on my Lenovo, if I press F12 repeatedly on startup, it takes me into a Boot Order menu. If I select Windows there, it boots into Windows. I also found that to get into BIOS at startup on my Lenovo tower, you press F1 rather than the F2 I'm used to on other computers.


Intel Smart Response Technology
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/imsm
Some general info in post #3
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2071242


Some info on re-instating details in post #9 Dell 14z
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2038121
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2070491
Ubuntu on hard drive, re-enable SRT post #19 details
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2129157

Disable the RAID, it was using the Intel rapid management thingy and telling it to disable the acceleration or the use of the SSD. If you have a different system, just disable the RAID system then install Ubuntu. Once installed you can then re-enable it.
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb

You will need to use the dmraid command prior to running the Ubuntu Installer so that it will be able to see the partitions on the drive because otherwise with the raid metadata in place it will see the drive as part of a raid set and ignore its partitions.