ninjashby
October 11th, 2013, 06:17 PM
Hi all,
I am having the same trouble as a lot of others trying to get ubuntu 13.04, windows 8 and UEFI to play nicely.
I am on a dell inspiron 14z which has windows 8 pre-installed. It has two disk drives, one 500GB and one 32GB SSD. Windows 8 is installed on the 500GB drive. I disabled secure boot, windows fast boot and tried to boot from an ubuntu live USB.
This failed, with a black screen after the 'Try ubuntu before installing' option, so i enabled legacy bios support. Then I could successfully boot from USB.
I proceeded to install ubuntu onto a partition on the 32GB SSD, with the home drive on a new partition on the 500GB drive.
This worked, but it wasn't great. I could boot into ubuntu as long as I had the legacy BIOS support enabled. This prevented me from booting into windows. If I reenabled UEFI, I could boot into windows but I didn't get grub and couldn't boot into ubuntu.
I followed the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI#Converting_Ubuntu_into_EFI_or_Legacy_mode to use boot-repair to convert my ubuntu install to work with UEFI, this didn't work, now I just get 'internal hard disk drive not found'
Here are the results of boot-repair : http://paste.ubuntu.com/6223285/
I am at a loss for what to try next. Googling the problem just comes up with the same things I have tried.
I am having the same trouble as a lot of others trying to get ubuntu 13.04, windows 8 and UEFI to play nicely.
I am on a dell inspiron 14z which has windows 8 pre-installed. It has two disk drives, one 500GB and one 32GB SSD. Windows 8 is installed on the 500GB drive. I disabled secure boot, windows fast boot and tried to boot from an ubuntu live USB.
This failed, with a black screen after the 'Try ubuntu before installing' option, so i enabled legacy bios support. Then I could successfully boot from USB.
I proceeded to install ubuntu onto a partition on the 32GB SSD, with the home drive on a new partition on the 500GB drive.
This worked, but it wasn't great. I could boot into ubuntu as long as I had the legacy BIOS support enabled. This prevented me from booting into windows. If I reenabled UEFI, I could boot into windows but I didn't get grub and couldn't boot into ubuntu.
I followed the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI#Converting_Ubuntu_into_EFI_or_Legacy_mode to use boot-repair to convert my ubuntu install to work with UEFI, this didn't work, now I just get 'internal hard disk drive not found'
Here are the results of boot-repair : http://paste.ubuntu.com/6223285/
I am at a loss for what to try next. Googling the problem just comes up with the same things I have tried.