W-Unit
November 6th, 2013, 07:34 PM
--EDIT--
Using the 64-bit version resolved the issue; thanks :)
Hi :)
I'd like to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 in my new Toshiba Satellite laptop, which has EFI (instead of BIOS).
I've spent almost the entire last 24 hours trying to create a USB drive that the Toshiba will boot from, to no avail.
I have, however, learned how to reliably access the EFI settings and select a boot device - neither of which, it turns out, are performed by pressing any keys during boot-up. Little victories.
Anyways, I've got a different desktop that's running Saucy, so my goal is to use that machine to create the USB drive that will install Ubuntu on the laptop.
When I tried to do this as normal using Kubuntu's Startup Disk Creator (with the image file named ubuntu-12.03.3-desktop-i386), I was able to boot the USB drive as expected on the desktop machine. However, on the laptop machine, when I attempted to manually select the USB as the boot device, UEFI told me: "System doesn't have any USB boot option. Select another device." or something.
Before you refer me to Google, I've already found a good deal of info on this topic. The problem is, I don't really understand the info that I've found. What I have learned of the issue is the following:
1) In order to be recognized by EFI as "bootable," the file system must be fat32
2) There is some connection to .efi files and a directory called /boot/efi
3) elilo is a command-line tool to "install EFI boot loader."
My problems:
1) "Startup Disk Creator" seems to create vfat filesystems. I assume this is a problem since fat32 is necessary according to UEFI spec. Is there any way to change this so Startup Disk Creator uses the correct file system?
2) I've got elilo installed, but I'm not sure how to proceed with using it to achieve this goal?
If you think I could achieve my goals more easily by using Windows 8 for this whole operation, instead of using my other Ubuntu machine to create the USB drive, please let me know. But making and formatting drives and file systems is something I would expect Linux to be better suited for :)
I have, however, already tried WinUSB Maker; this program complained that the iso file (same one I had used successfully with Startup Disk Creator to boot my desktop) was invalid, something about NT.6 or NTX6 or something.
Here are some info sources I read, but couldn't really fully understand...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders
http://superuser.com/questions/415198/make-uefi-gpt-bootloader-ssd-usb-linux-and-windows-work-together
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/uefi-boot-support-in-the-slackware-installer-4175453960/
http://superuser.com/questions/415198/make-uefi-gpt-bootloader-ssd-usb-linux-and-windows-work-together
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41738/booting-linux-from-usb-using-efi
Thanks for your time guys, and have a great day!
Using the 64-bit version resolved the issue; thanks :)
Hi :)
I'd like to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 in my new Toshiba Satellite laptop, which has EFI (instead of BIOS).
I've spent almost the entire last 24 hours trying to create a USB drive that the Toshiba will boot from, to no avail.
I have, however, learned how to reliably access the EFI settings and select a boot device - neither of which, it turns out, are performed by pressing any keys during boot-up. Little victories.
Anyways, I've got a different desktop that's running Saucy, so my goal is to use that machine to create the USB drive that will install Ubuntu on the laptop.
When I tried to do this as normal using Kubuntu's Startup Disk Creator (with the image file named ubuntu-12.03.3-desktop-i386), I was able to boot the USB drive as expected on the desktop machine. However, on the laptop machine, when I attempted to manually select the USB as the boot device, UEFI told me: "System doesn't have any USB boot option. Select another device." or something.
Before you refer me to Google, I've already found a good deal of info on this topic. The problem is, I don't really understand the info that I've found. What I have learned of the issue is the following:
1) In order to be recognized by EFI as "bootable," the file system must be fat32
2) There is some connection to .efi files and a directory called /boot/efi
3) elilo is a command-line tool to "install EFI boot loader."
My problems:
1) "Startup Disk Creator" seems to create vfat filesystems. I assume this is a problem since fat32 is necessary according to UEFI spec. Is there any way to change this so Startup Disk Creator uses the correct file system?
2) I've got elilo installed, but I'm not sure how to proceed with using it to achieve this goal?
If you think I could achieve my goals more easily by using Windows 8 for this whole operation, instead of using my other Ubuntu machine to create the USB drive, please let me know. But making and formatting drives and file systems is something I would expect Linux to be better suited for :)
I have, however, already tried WinUSB Maker; this program complained that the iso file (same one I had used successfully with Startup Disk Creator to boot my desktop) was invalid, something about NT.6 or NTX6 or something.
Here are some info sources I read, but couldn't really fully understand...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders
http://superuser.com/questions/415198/make-uefi-gpt-bootloader-ssd-usb-linux-and-windows-work-together
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/uefi-boot-support-in-the-slackware-installer-4175453960/
http://superuser.com/questions/415198/make-uefi-gpt-bootloader-ssd-usb-linux-and-windows-work-together
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41738/booting-linux-from-usb-using-efi
Thanks for your time guys, and have a great day!