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xigen
March 17th, 2015, 11:59 PM
I got rocksmith 2014 as a present.

Play on Linux --> waaaay too much delay
Virtualization --> too much delay

How do I install windows 8 on my Ubuntu system with UEFI?




Ubuntu 14.04
Motherboard: 970A-UD3P Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor

#lshw



description: L2 cache
physical id: 6
slot: L2-Cache
size: 8MiB
capacity: 8MiB
clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)
capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified
*-cache:2
description: L3 cache
physical id: 7
slot: L3-Cache
size: 8MiB
capacity: 8MiB
clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)
capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 2c
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 8GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM Synchronous [empty]
product: Dimm0_PartNum
vendor: Dimm0_Manufacturer
physical id: 0
serial: Dimm0_SerNum
slot: Node0_Dimm0
*-bank:1
description: DIMM Synchronous [empty]
product: Dimm1_PartNum
vendor: Dimm1_Manufacturer
physical id: 1
serial: Dimm1_SerNum
slot: Node0_Dimm1
*-bank:2
description: DIMM Synchronous [empty]
product: Dimm2_PartNum
vendor: Dimm2_Manufacturer
physical id: 2
serial: Dimm2_SerNum
slot: Node0_Dimm2
*-bank:3
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: BLS8G3D1339DS
vendor: Undefined
physical id: 3
serial: A3136436
slot: Node0_Dimm3
size: 8GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-pci:0
description: Host bridge
product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port B)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:52 memory:fe300000-fe3fffff
*-usb
description: USB controller
product: VIA Technologies, Inc.
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress xhci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:72 memory:fe300000-fe300fff
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:53 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fe200000-fe2fffff ioport:d2200000(size=1048576)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 06
serial: e8:de:27:06:86:10
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8168 driverversion=8.038.00-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:73 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fe200000-fe200fff memory:d2200000-d2203fff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port H)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:53 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fe100000-fe1fffff ioport:d2100000(size=1048576)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 06
serial: 74:d4:35:5e:c7:63
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8168 driverversion=8.038.00-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.2.139 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:74 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fe100000-fe100fff memory:d2100000-d2103fff
*-storage
description: SATA controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 11
bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
version: 40
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ahci latency=32
resources: irq:19 ioport:f090(size=8) ioport:f080(size=4) ioport:f070(size=8) ioport:f060(size=4) ioport:f050(size=16) memory:fe407000-fe4073ff
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master
configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:18 memory:fe406000-fe406fff
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 12.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:17 memory:fe405000-fe4050ff
*-usb:2
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 13
bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master
configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:18 memory:fe404000-fe404fff
*-usb:3
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 13.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:13.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:17 memory:fe403000-fe4030ff
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: SBx00 SMBus Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
version: 42
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=piix4_smbus latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 14.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
version: 40
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=pata_atiixp latency=32
resources: irq:17 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f000(size=16)
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
version: 40
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 14.4
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.4
version: 40
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master vga_palette
resources: ioport:c000(size=4096)
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller
vendor: VIA Technologies Inc.
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:04:06.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_ice1712 latency=32
resources: irq:20 ioport:c040(size=32) ioport:c070(size=16) ioport:c060(size=16) ioport:c000(size=64)
*-usb:4
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 14.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.5
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master
configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:18 memory:fe402000-fe402fff
*-pci:4
description: PCI bridge
product: SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 15
bus info: pci@0000:00:15.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:16 ioport:b000(size=4096) memory:fd000000-fe0fffff ioport:c0000000(size=301989888)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GK107 [GeForce GTX 650]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:75 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:b000(size=128) memory:fe000000-fe07ffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: GK107 HDMI Audio Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.1
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:fe080000-fe083fff
*-usb:5
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 16
bus info: pci@0000:00:16.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master
configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:18 memory:fe401000-fe401fff
*-usb:6
description: USB controller
product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 16.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:16.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
resources: irq:17 memory:fe400000-fe4000ff
*-pci:1
description: Host bridge
product: Family 15h Processor Function 0
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 101
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:2
description: Host bridge
product: Family 15h Processor Function 1
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 102
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:3
description: Host bridge
product: Family 15h Processor Function 2
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 103
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:4
description: Host bridge
product: Family 15h Processor Function 3
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 104
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=k10temp
resources: irq:0
*-pci:5
description: Host bridge
product: Family 15h Processor Function 4
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 105
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.4
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=fam15h_power
resources: irq:0
*-pci:6
description: Host bridge
product: Family 15h Processor Function 5
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 106
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.5
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-scsi:0
physical id: 1
logical name: scsi1
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: INTEL SSDSC2BW24
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: DC32
serial: CVDA401101S52403GN
size: 223GiB (240GB)
capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=eaf7ff9e-a858-4264-abc5-36985fe65e9d sectorsize=512
*-volume:0
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: mkfs.fat
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /boot/efi
version: FAT32
serial: 006e-e1a5
size: 510MiB
capacity: 511MiB
capabilities: boot fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,co depage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: EFI partition
vendor: Linux
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
logical name: /boot
version: 1.0
serial: 8f45ec5b-72a0-417e-85c8-14638414cd12
size: 244MiB
capabilities: extended_attributes ext2 initialized
configuration: filesystem=ext2 lastmountpoint=/boot modified=2014-08-25 09:15:29 mount.fstype=ext2 mount.options=rw,relatime mounted=2014-08-25 09:15:29 state=mounted
*-volume:2
description: LVM Physical Volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 3
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,3
logical name: /dev/sda3
serial: mqaITd-GLUd-DYwr-R4HT-3Pv2-amfJ-tIBFdq
size: 222GiB
capabilities: multi lvm2
*-scsi:1
physical id: 2
logical name: scsi2
capabilities: emulated
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DRW-24B1ST i
vendor: ASUS
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-scsi:2
physical id: 3
bus info: usb@8:1.1
logical name: scsi6
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
size: 232GiB (250GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: sectorsize=512 signature=0002a926
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /media/meow/littlemeow
version: 1.0
serial: 9bc91839-1552-450b-8779-09609d8f0dc9
size: 230GiB
capacity: 230GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2012-07-08 19:22:41 filesystem=ext4 label=littlemeow lastmountpoint=/media/meow/littlemeow modified=2014-08-25 09:16:40 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordere d mounted=2014-08-25 09:16:40 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sdb2
size: 2045MiB
capacity: 2045MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sdb5
capacity: 2045MiB
capabilities: nofs

oldfred
March 18th, 2015, 03:02 PM
Just be sure to boot Windows installer in UEFI mode. If you happen to boot in BIOS mode it converts drive to MBR(msdos) effectively erasing it.

You still have to make sure to have fast boot off. And depending on your model computer may only boot Windows and need work arounds to enable boot to grub menu,

Fast Startup off/hibernation
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html
http://www.kapilarya.com/how-to-enable-disable-fast-start-up-in-windows-8
Fast boot is hidden.
If issues you may need these?
Control Panel -> Power icon -> Choose what power buttons do -> Change settings that are currently unavaliable, make sure fast startup is unchecked
powercfg /h off

Best to fully backup efi partition and Ubuntu first.

If you partition in advance be sure to create the extra partition(s) Windows needs. You only have one efi partition and Windows & Ubuntu/grub share that.


Microsoft suggested partitions including reserved partition for gpt & UEFI:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744301%28WS.10%29.aspx
Order on drive is important: msftres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reserved_Partition