jacob106
June 6th, 2016, 05:15 AM
Hi guys,
So I used to have an alienware m14x r2, which I loaded ubuntu 15.10 from using an external hard drive. However I recently bought the new Razer Blade Stealth, which does not recognize the external hard drive in the boot menu. The drive is still working as I can boot it using different machines (old alienware, desktop, other laptops). After calling tech support and having it checked out by my IT department, the conclusion is that the Razer blade stealth does not support Legacy boot (which the drive uses) and therefore does not recognize it. (Note: the drive is formatted that it has two partitions: one is used for ubuntu, the other is used for regular storage, and the Razer stealth does pick up the storage partition). If this is incorrect, you can ignore the rest of the post and maybe propose an alternate solution.
The proposed solution was to try and install ubuntu in a way that the drive uses UEFI boot, but I couldn't find a straight forward article. The method I used to install ubuntu originally does not have the option for using uefi or legacy so I cannot redo that. I am also not going to make my razer stealth an ubuntu only laptop or dual bootable because there is not much space (I went with the 128gb ssd). Let me know if there are any good solutions to this problem, thanks.
So I used to have an alienware m14x r2, which I loaded ubuntu 15.10 from using an external hard drive. However I recently bought the new Razer Blade Stealth, which does not recognize the external hard drive in the boot menu. The drive is still working as I can boot it using different machines (old alienware, desktop, other laptops). After calling tech support and having it checked out by my IT department, the conclusion is that the Razer blade stealth does not support Legacy boot (which the drive uses) and therefore does not recognize it. (Note: the drive is formatted that it has two partitions: one is used for ubuntu, the other is used for regular storage, and the Razer stealth does pick up the storage partition). If this is incorrect, you can ignore the rest of the post and maybe propose an alternate solution.
The proposed solution was to try and install ubuntu in a way that the drive uses UEFI boot, but I couldn't find a straight forward article. The method I used to install ubuntu originally does not have the option for using uefi or legacy so I cannot redo that. I am also not going to make my razer stealth an ubuntu only laptop or dual bootable because there is not much space (I went with the 128gb ssd). Let me know if there are any good solutions to this problem, thanks.