Tutorial: How to set up a Windows/Linux Lite dual-boot with UEFI fully enabled.

[anon222]

BUG reported. Please scroll down to this paragraph in the tutorial (1st post of this thread)....

Some more useful directories are also then mounted:
[email]root@ubuntu[/email]:/home/ubuntu# for i in /dev/ /dev/pts /proc/ /sys/ ; do mount -B $i /mnt/$i ; done   

See code which says 'for i in /dev/......'    (which is correct)
For some of you, when you copied and pasted, this may have erroneously come up as                    'for inin /dev.....'  which is incorrect.  This happened because an 'n' (in white font) was inserted after the first 'i' to prevent the single 'i' auto-capitalising.  I have now corrected this bug.

Apologies if this caused any headaches for some of you.

Regards
Mike

Hello Mike perhaphs if you use the code tags it would make a difference.

[m654321]

Hello Mike perhaphs if you use the code tags it would make a difference.

Thanks misko, that's really helpful - hopefully my posts will be a bit clearer in future.
I'm slowly getting there...

Regards
Mike

[m654321]

Thanks Misko - I've now added the code tags - makes a big difference to overall presentation.
They look really cool  8)

Cheers
Mike

[anon222]

Cheers Mike 
BBcode reference:
http://www.bbcode.org/reference.php

[m654321]

UPDATE 4:
I have edited instruction 14 (Section D) of the Tutorial re. the message 'could not open \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14' that may appear on your screen while installing UEFI with Ubuntu live media. As mentioned in the edit, just ignore the message and continue with the live media - it doesn't appear to affect the successfull setting up of the UEFI dual-boot.

At present, I'm working on one or two other updates to the tutorial, i.e:

1. How to edit the grub screen to change the listed OS name from *Ubuntu to Linux Lite
2. What to do if your grub screen disappears at startup and boots straight into win8.1. - this happened to me following temporary removal of the UEFI dual-boot HDD from the laptop, working with another HDD for a short time, and then subsequently putting back the original UEFI dual-boot HDD into the laptop. Perplexing to say the least...

Regards
Mike

[m654321]

UPDATE 5:

At present, I'm working on one or two other updates to the tutorial, i.e:

1. How to edit the grub screen to change the listed OS name from *Ubuntu to Linux Lite
2. What to do if your grub screen disappears at startup and boots straight into win8.1. - this happened to me following temporary removal of the UEFI dual-boot HDD from the laptop, working with another HDD for a short time, and then subsequently putting back the original UEFI dual-boot HDD into the laptop. Perplexing to say the least...

The above two points are now covered in the tutorial, in additional sections E & F.

Cheers
Mike

[m654321]

UPDATE 6:
Just to say I've edited Section A of the tutorial (18.10.15) to include the following two points...

1. The tutorial worked very well for a LL2.6/Win10 UEFI dual-boot set-up

2. With LL2.6/Win10, I appeared to have no problem setting up a separate /home partition for LL.  I quite like to have a separate home partition so that configuration files are preserved during upgrading - that way I don't lose my Firefox bookmarks and other settings.  If you install LL as root only, then you will lose these and other settings.

3. I haven't found a /swap partition necessary in my previous set-ups, when swappiness has been reduced from the default of 60 to a value of 10, as it never seems to get used.  So now that the system runs very snappily anyway, with a solid-state drive, I have omitted a swap partition from the set-up. 

Cheers
Mike

[cuscotravelservices]

Hi Mike,

Does this topic of yours infer that LL2.6 64-bit is not UEFI enabled for either Live or Installed use and that another UEFI enabled distribution needs to be used to enable LL2.6 64-bit to be used in UEFI mode?

I have my Laptop configured for Dual Booting with Windows 8.1 Pro and I've tested several different Linux distributions on it with a Live USB with the following configuration.

In the Startup section for UEFI I have Secure Boot disabled along with the following.

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UEFI/Legacy Boot       [UEFI Only]
   - CSM Support       [No]

The other options for UEFI/Legacy Boot are Both and Legacy Only.

Installed distributions I have used include Linux Mint 16, Manjaro Xfce 0.8.10, Manjaro Xfce+Ob 0.9.0 OpenRC and Calculate Linux 15 for which the respective Live USBs worked with the above UEFI configuration.

Here's the output for fdisk -l.

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Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 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
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 5FEEA573-43E2-4CD6-A7F4-AC5E2FFD7A30

Device         Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048    616447    614400  300M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2     616448    819199    202752   99M EFI System
/dev/sda3     819200   1081343    262144  128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4    1081344 210796543 209715200  100G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  210796544 252739583  41943040   20G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6  252739584 273711103  20971520   10G Linux swap
/dev/sda7  273711104 315654143  41943040   20G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda8  315654144 766541823 450887680  215G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda9  766541824 850427903  83886080   40G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda10 850427904 976766975 126339072 60.2G Microsoft basic data

/dev/sda7 is actually the Manjaro Xfce 0.8.10 install that is borked somewhat.

/dev/sda4 is the Windows 8.1 installation.

Thanks, MTB.

[m654321]

Does this topic of yours infer that LL2.6 64-bit is not UEFI enabled for either Live or Installed use and that another UEFI enabled distribution needs to be used to enable LL2.6 64-bit to be used in UEFI mode?

Hi Cusco,

The tutorial works very well for  UEFI enabled dual-boot set-ups for any LL version (i.e. from 2.0 onwards) combined with Windows (either versions 8.1 or 10).  It may well work with Win7 or Win8 too, and also for  LL versions earlier than 2.0, but have not needed to try these so don't really know. Yes,  Ubuntu (which has an official UEFI license from Microsoft, Linux Lite doesn't) is used in the live environment to install UEFI in Linux Lite.  If you print out the tutorial and follow it word-for-word, installation should be straightforward. Without Ubuntu, you won't be able to install LL in UEFI mode - see step D of the tutorial.

I'm a bit confused by the rest of your post as it's a bit off topic.  The aim of the present tutorial was to provide more detailed instructions, to accompany  Nehal J Wani's original YouTube video, which showed how to set-up a LL 2.0 / Windows 8.1 UEFI enabled dual-boot.  If you want to discuss setting up other distros, using either UEFI or Legacy, may I suggest you begin a new discussion thread on this.  It would probably be more productive for you discussing this elsewhere on the LL forum...

Nehal J Wani has also posted several YouTube videos showing how to set up several different kinds of Linux distro in dual boot with Windows OS, with UEFI enabled.  Might be worth having a look at these if you are interested further...

Many thanks for your interest in this tutorial
Cheers
Mike

[cuscotravelservices]

I'm a bit confused by the rest of your post as it's a bit off topic.  The aim of the present tutorial was to provide more detailed instructions, to accompany  Nehal J Wani's original YouTube video, which showed how to set-up a LL 2.0 / Windows 8.1 UEFI enabled dual-boot.  If you want to discuss setting up other distros, using either UEFI or Legacy, may I suggest you begin a new discussion thread on this.  It would probably be more productive for you discussing this elewhere on the LL forum...

Hi Mike,

For the other distributions, I have used, including Linux Mint which is also based on Ubuntu, I have never needed to follow a procedure such as detailed in your tutorial.

My Laptop (Lenovo B590) was bought with only FreeDOS installed. As per instructions on the Internet, I installed Windows 8.1 Pro with the UEFI configured as I noted in my previous post. Hence, when installing Linux Mint 16 64-bit, GRUB was installed in UEFI mode. Linux Mint 16 64-bit was the first Linux OS I installed on this Laptop. I used Rufus in Windows 8.1 to make a UEFI bootable Live USB for Linux Mint 16 64-bit. I followed the Tutorial created by gold_finger at the following page.

[TUTORIAL] Installing Mint on a Windows 8/8.1 Computer

Therefore, I was wondering if it was necessary to be following your procedure for the 64-bit edition of Linux Lite 2.6?

Maybe, I would only need to use sudo update-grub from Calculate Linux or a Linux Live USB that boots in UEFI mode?

Thanks, MTB.