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lonniehenry-gmail
March 29th, 2016, 12:12 AM
I have a ASUS Zenbook ux305ua and would like to dual boot. I have turned off fast boot and secure boot. With a usb jumpdrive I can run 15.10 live, connect to net, seems to work okay. When I try to install, choosing install besides windows, it continues until the point it installs grub2, it fails with a fatal error. When I reboot windows, it has created the partitions to use for linux and swap, but no other evidence that anything has happened. I have tried this a few times. I can go back in windows disk management and return the partitions to the window partitition. This is my first dealing with uefi boot. What to try next?
Thanks in advance.

oldfred
March 29th, 2016, 12:23 AM
Is this a new Skylake system?
Does it also have NMVe drive?
Are you installing in UEFI boot mode. How you boot install media, is then how it installs.

Best to use Windows to shrink NTFS partition and reboot so it can run chkdsk and update to its new size.
Post this:
sudo parted -l

lonniehenry-gmail
March 29th, 2016, 01:25 AM
Yes skylake I5

product: Micron_M600_MTFD -no it appears to be M.2 not NMVe

made jumpdrive and am using uefiboot partition. I try ubuntu, connect network and then click on install 15.10 - it crashes out at install grub2.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/ram0: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram1: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram2: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram3: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram4: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram5: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram6: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram7: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram8: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram9: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram10: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram11: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum

oldfred
March 29th, 2016, 02:17 PM
fdisk does not work on gpt drives, nor NVMe.
There is a new fdisk with 16.04 that will show gpt correctly.

Use only parted or gdisk to show drives.

Asus NVMe issues - not solved UEFI/BIOS issue?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2307273

lonniehenry-gmail
April 4th, 2016, 06:59 PM
I managed to get ubuntu mate 15.10 installed to a partition on my drive with the grub2 on the partition as I was not able to get the uefi to either install to the main drive uefi partition or on the linux partition. I followed how to get boot-info so as to get help with the boot issues. I can boot windows by hitting power, linux by hitting power and escape to get a choice of windows or the partition with grub2 where I have a choice of the linux, linux recovery, mem test or the windows partition. I would like the system to default to the linux partition and a way of starting windows on occasions that I need it. I got a url from boot-info if that helps Thanks


http://paste2.org/InA8CXMO

oldfred
April 4th, 2016, 07:29 PM
LInk is not working.

Some other Asus:
Asus UX303UB hardware problems - a list 15.10
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2319066
Asus M32CD desktop - Skylake several boot parameters required
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2312977
ASUS G752 Can't see SSD NVMe Needed UEFI/BIOS update
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2307273
ASUS ROG GL552VW-CN104T
http://askubuntu.com/questions/694453/new-laptop-skylake-cannot-boot-xubuntu-even-with-boot-parameters
Problems Installing on ASUS F555U needed boot option pci=nomsi
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2303665

lonniehenry-gmail
April 4th, 2016, 10:45 PM
Sorry about the link - I can't read my own writing. http://paste2.org/InA8CXMO

Thanks

oldfred
April 4th, 2016, 11:44 PM
Boot-Repair is offering to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 for UEFI boot. I would run that.

You installed grub in BIOS boot mode. But it will not work in BIOS mode unless you add a 1 or 2MB unformatted partition with the bios_grub flag. If you want BIOS boot you can use gparted to add partition then run Boot-Repair to install a BIOS version of grub.

lonniehenry-gmail
April 5th, 2016, 12:09 AM
Old Fred, Many thanks, I discovered that if I went into bios that I could reorder the boot options to do what I wanted - let the ubuntu grub handle first screen. I was thrown off by no familiarity of the uefi system. By reading your links I have learned many things that made this machine run ubuntu mate. I have moved to 16.04 and am using 4.6.0.999 generic daily kernal and it runs well. I got dropbox, a conky that shows system info running well. After initially being stymied by installing, now all is well.

Thank you again.

Lonnie
ASUS ux305ua, Skylake 15