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Dual-boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 on UEFI hardware

in Tutorials/Tips, ubuntu / on November 5, 2012 at 10:53 pm / Subscribe Isearch... am reading page: 1 2 Search 4. Advanced Partitioning Tool: This is the installers Advanced Partitioning Tool window. Though the installer has support for LVM and full disk encryption in the automated partitioning modes, they are not supported in the Advanced Partitioning Tool. Which means that this advanced tool is only so in name only. In this window, you can see two Windows 8 partitions, and the free space. The free space is what will be used to create partitions for Ubuntu. Select it, then click the + button. Note that because there are two existing primary partitions on the system, you can only create two more primary partitions. You can read more about that here.

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5. Partition Creation Window: This is the partition creation window. There are no exotic options here. Because there are existing primary partitions on the disk, the installer will attempt to create any new partition as a logical partition. You can stick with what the installer wants to use, or modify if. For this tutorial, I chose to create the first partition for Ubuntu as a primary partition.

6. Create Boot Partition: The first partition will be mounted at /boot. Notice that Primary is selected, instead of Logical. I allocated 250 MB of disk space to it, which is about the default in this latest edition of Ubuntu. I also chose Ext2 as the file system. That, is also the default for the boot partition in Ubuntu 12.10. OK. Because Im assuming that you have read guide to disks and disk partitions in Linux and Ubuntu 12.10 installation and disk partitioning guide, certain details are being omitted in these steps.

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7. Create More Partitions: After the boot partition has been created, you will be returned to the main window of the Advanced Partitioning Tool. To create the remaining partitions, select the free space, then click the + button. This step has to be repeated for the other partitions too.

8. Create Root Partition: The next partition will be mounted at /. I allocated 15,000 MB, or 15 GB to it. And I used the default file system. Because there is just one primary partition left, the installer will create it and subsequent partitions as logical partitions. And theres nothing you can do about that. MBR-based partitioning schemes are limited to a maximum of four (4) primary partitions. OK.

9. Create Home Partition: The third partition will be mounted at /home. Aside from the disk space, I used the defaults for the other options. OK.

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10. Create Swap Partition: The last partition is for Swap, disk space that the system may use as memory. It has been suggested that on a 32-bit system, 2 GB is all you need for Swap, and 4 GB or more for a 64-bit machine. Be sure to select swap area from the Use as dropdown menu. OK.

11. Complete Partitions List: When all the partitions have been created, you should see them listed in the main window of the Advanced Partitioning Tool. The final task at this step, is to specify the Device for boot loader installation. By default, it is /dev/sda or the HDDs MBR. But we want GRUB to be installed in the boot partition, which is sda3 in this tutorial. So, select /dev/sda3 from the dropdown menu. GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, is the name of the boot loader in Ubuntu and almost all Linux distributions.

12. Bootloader Device: After the right partition has been selected for the boot loader installation, the window should look like he one shown below. Click Install Now.

After the installation of Ubuntu has completed, rebooting the computer will drop you into Windows 8. Last and final task, is to add an entry for Ubuntu is Windows 8s boot
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menu. There are several options for doing it, but the one that Ive been using for my tutorials, is EasyBCD from NeoSmart Technologies. It is free for personal use. 13. Download and Install EasyBCD: Download EasyBCD from here. Install it as you would any other Windows application. After installation, start it, if it is not started automatically. The main window is shown below. To add an entry for Ubuntu, click on the Add New Entry tab.

14. And Entry in EasyBCD: Then click on the Linux/BSD tab. GRUB 2 is the version of GRUB used by Ubuntu 12.10, so select it from the Type menu. For the Drive dropdown menu, Automatically locate and load always worked for me, but you can select the specific partition, if it makes you happy. Modify the Name field to match, then click the Add Entry button.

15. Preview Boot Managers Menu: To preview what Windows 8s boot menu will look like, click the Edit Boot Menu tab. You can change the boot order and mess with a few other options from here. Save Settings, exit EasyBCD and reboot the computer.

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Thats it folks! Got any problems or questions, feel free to ask. To make it easier to help you out, be sure to provide some details about your hardware and partition sizes.

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ssssss says: January 13, 2013 at 1:49 pm very simple install windows 8 ,then install ubuntu 10.04 via wubi and then upgrade it to 12.04 via the update manager this way u can dual boot. Reply

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Hamilton says: January 12, 2013 at 8:03 am I have a laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed, UEFI and secure boot. I tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 (64x) following the instructions above. However, Ubuntu refused to accept my /boot partition to install the boot loader. More than that, I need to access bios in order to start my laptop. Any suggestion? Reply finid says: January 12, 2013 at 9:17 am

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If the firmware is UEFI, then you need to access the UEFI Setup utility, not the BIOS. That aside, the manner you access it is the same way you access a BIOS. Follow the specific instructions that came with the unit It normally involves pressing one of the F-numbered keys on the keyboard. Reply 3. pianoman says: January 10, 2013 at 9:50 pm I was successful in installing Ubuntu this way, but its very sluggish compared to what it should be as far as Ive heard on the internet. How would I go about removing Ubuntu safely to install it a different way? Reply finid says: January 10, 2013 at 10:22 pm There is only one way to install Ubuntu, and if it was sluggish the first time, it will be the second time. Could the sluggishness be due to your PC? Reply pianoman says: January 10, 2013 at 11:40 pm no I cant imagine so. Its a very fast computer and it should work correctly. And by multiple ways I mean by usb, dvd, or windows installer. Reply Matt says: January 11, 2013 at 7:01 pm The way you boot ubuntu has nothing to do with how sluggish it is. You are prob. missing video drivers. Reply 4. waitwhat says: January 4, 2013 at 6:18 pm Hey thanks for the guide! After step12, installing Ubuntu, I rebooted my computer and it showed a purple screen with nothing on it and went directly to the Ubuntu 12.10. Can I use Easy BSD in linux to get my windows 8 back? Reply finid says: January 4, 2013 at 8:44 pm If done right, rebooting the PC will boot into Windows, not Ubuntu, so something was not done right during the installation of Ubuntu. EasyBCD is a Windows application, so it will not run on Ubuntu. Reply 5. Jackson says: December 27, 2012 at 9:37 pm Ive done dual boots before, but never on windows 8. Finid, your instructions worked perfectly until the final step, after creating an entry for Ubuntu 12.10 and rebooting I got the old style boot screen ( who cares) but Ubuntu was a dead link and i got redirected to the ever annoying grub command line. The windows entry worked as normal. I am on an asus laptop (i7) and my windows 8 (clean reinstall) is an upgrade from windows 7. Secure boot is not enabled. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Reply Frank says: January 9, 2013 at 5:20 am You have to use GRUB2 with the new UEFI systems. Otherwise, linux cannot boot. You can change it with Easy BCD in Windows. Reply 6. machalan says: December 22, 2012 at 1:18 am On a Lenovo s430 edge with secure boot, following this how-to doesnt produce a dual-boot environment with windows 8 and ubuntu 12.10.. the result is that grub2 will still want to boot win8 which it cant (error messages) and windows 8 will not be able to boot ubuntu 12.10 .. so both systems can be booted from the bios but not from each other. Reply
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Brandon says: January 8, 2013 at 6:54 pm I got the same result with the Lenovo Ideapad S300. Reply 7. Lars says: December 18, 2012 at 9:43 am Works great for me on an HP EliteBook 8530w with HDD. Thanks so much for putting this together (especially the linked explanations of the disk partitioning scheme). Reply 8. Neeraj says: December 13, 2012 at 2:31 am Can we install Fedora 17 as well using this technique? Reply finid says: December 13, 2012 at 8:40 am yes. Reply 9. Xkrowth says: December 10, 2012 at 10:37 am I installed everything, and then used EasyBCD to add the Linux entry, restarted my PC and it worked, I got the selection screen and both OS work, BUT the selection screen looks like the old Windows 7 boot selection, NOT the new Windows 8 nice looking selection screen Do you guys know how to fix that? I want to get the new Windows 8 OS selection screen Reply finid says: December 10, 2012 at 10:50 am The first installation I did, I got the new selection screen, but on subsequent tries, I got the old one. Have not figured it out yet, but thats because I havent tried. Reply Kris says: January 19, 2013 at 4:44 pm For those of you with the old bootloader, Open EasyBCD, click BCD deployment and click Write MBR. It Should write the Master Boot Record of windows 8. found on http://askubuntu.com/questions/230878/dual-boot-windows-8-and-ubuntu-with-windows-8-boot-manager Reply finid says: January 19, 2013 at 5:59 pm Same instructions at restore the Windows boot loader to MBR after dual-booting with Linux. Reply 10. karthik says: December 3, 2012 at 11:34 am i followed all steps and when i boot and select ubuntu it goes into grub cmd prompt , no gui Reply David says: December 12, 2012 at 5:07 pm Yes. Same thing for me. Installed as described, I get the old style boot loader and then I simply get a grub prompt. Secure Boot is turned off. Any tips? Reply 11. Igor says: November 21, 2012 at 9:47 pm

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Look man gave almost everything right, the only problem is that when I restart the screen to boot windows and shows the option with Ubuntu, only that when he does choose the Ubuntu, him does not and starts a message appears asking you to insert a disc to repair says that the system has a file system with errors, but when I choose start windows normally, is it coz EasyBCD is 32 bits?? Another thing I did not create a separate parto home because I prefer to keep my files on NTFS to recognize the windows, put the swap at the end of HD and left an unallocated space!!!! If you know what happened appreciate the help, because I try to do is install in po Dualboot, I am to give up!!! Thanks!!! Reply hrastyy says: December 7, 2012 at 11:46 am Ive got nearly the same problem on my VAIO DUO 11 (Win8Pro, 4gig ram, 128gb ssd, Intel Core i5, UEFI firmware, Secure Boot disabled in BIOS) I wanted to install Ubuntu 12.10 as second system (additional partition on ssd) and did it via USB boot. But I didnt get a boot manager entry for Ubuntu! So I reinstalled Ubuntu and set GRUB2 to be installed, but that didnt effect cause the Win8-BootManager starts at very first. Then I used BootBCD (as described here), got an entry for Ubuntu, but this entry is a dead link it leads to an error page which says the .mbr-file couldnt be found. Any advice out there?? Reply peedub says: January 25, 2013 at 11:45 am I had the same results on my VAIO DUO 11 as well with a gentoo install. Reply 12. Michael Leones says: November 18, 2012 at 10:28 am I recently had to deal with Ubuntu 12.10 and Win 7 on a UEFI hardware. After several tries, I decided to go to old style and on BIOS I turned off UEFI and deleted GPT partition on hard drive and reinstalled Win 7 and Ubuntu on a dual boot. If you dont delete GPT partition, you will not have a successful installation. Later I went and replaced Ubuntu with Pear OS 6 with no problem. Reply 13. Jan says: November 18, 2012 at 8:03 am Hello, when i create the boot partition: /boot and select primary, then the remaining space become unusable and i can`t create partions anymore . But when i select logical i can create more partitions. How can this be? can i make the boot partition: /boot just logical? Or are there problems with that? why do you set it on primary in the first place? (I want to dualboot with Windows 7) Thanks! Reply finid says: November 18, 2012 at 10:21 am Guide to disks and disk partitions in Linux gives you fundamental information about this subject. If creating /boot as a primary partition makes the rest of the space unusable, then it means that you have 3 primary partitions on the disk prior to that operation. So you need to create /boot and all the other partitions as logical partitions. Be sure to read that article. Reply Jan says: November 19, 2012 at 4:33 am Thanks for your answer. I have read the article you given me. When i boot the Ubuntu-installer i can only make primary or logical partitions, no extended ones. So on default it shows 3 primary partitions. In order to add more than one new partition, i must make the new partitions i want to add logical instead of primary otherwise i can not add multiple new partions. So i dont make a extended partition with logical partitions in it, instead i make stand alone logical partitions since that is the only way possible. Btw, i have no uefi but the old bios. If i want to add new partitions can i still make these partitions logical? Even the /boot partition?
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why do you recommend to make the /boot partition primary? Are there any disadvantages by using a logical /boot partition instead of a primary /boot partition? Reply finid says: November 19, 2012 at 4:59 am I chose to make the boot partition primary because I had enough primary to do that. If you do not, create it as a logical partition. If you have 3 existing primary partitions, the you have no choice but to create all partitions as logical, even the boot partition. Linux will boot from any type of partition, so it does not matter whether you create /boot as primary of logical. Note that when you select logical to create a logical partition, the installer MUST first create an extended partition before it can create the logical partition. However, it does the setup of the extended partition in the background, that is why you do not see it. Reply Jan says: November 19, 2012 at 5:23 am So if i just create a logical partition in the ubuntu-installer, it creates automatically a extended partition even if i didnt tel it to do so. On the other hand, a logical partition requires a extended partition and all the logical partitions on a disk falls under the extended partition on the same disk. Why wont show Ubuntu the extended partition?

finid says: November 19, 2012 at 5:59 am That is just the way the installer was written. Anaconda, the Fedora system installer, shows you the extended partition. That much was stated in this article.

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Sventunus says: November 7, 2012 at 1:33 pm Hi finid, I just tried your instructions with Win 8 Pro and Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon. After running EasyBCD, making the necessary changes and rebooting, I get an error saying Windows cant boot referring to AutoNeoGrub.mbr missing when I try to boot into Linux. Does that make any sense to you and do you know a solution? Thanks! Reply finid says: November 7, 2012 at 1:45 pm Is the PC you used a store-bought one or one you assembled yourself? It might be related to Restricted Boot, which I dont think is supported by Mint 13s installer. I think it works with Ubuntu 12.10 because that feature is supported. Ubuntu 12.10 seems to be the first stable release of any distro to support it. You may have to disable Restricted Boot, that is, if it is enabled and if your vendor makes it possible to disable it. Reply Sventunus says: November 7, 2012 at 1:59 pm Wow, thanks for the quick reply! Its a store bought Sony VAIO S-series laptop, 2 months old. It comes with a default partitioning scheme as described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/150174/sony-vaio-with-insyde-h2o-efi-bios-will-not-boot-into-grub-efi/157062#157062 So theres an EFI partition (sda1) to load a system recovery partition (sda2), a second EFI partition (sda3) to load the default Windows install (sda4). I created partitions for Mint as described in your article. The computer was running Windows 7 when I bought it. I took an image of all my partitions last weekend and upgraded the Windows 7 install to Windows 8 Pro. My problem has nothing to do with the Secure Boot as far as I can tell, so Ubuntu and Fedoras implementations for passing W8 SB shouldnt make them stand out over Mint for what this issue is concerned. Im getting this exact error: http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10302 Seems like I will have to use GRUB2 instead of BOOTMGR or use Ubuntu/Fedora instead of Mint for a while Reply finid says: November 7, 2012 at 2:09 pm

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Well, Ill have to try dual-booting Mint 13 and Windows 8 soon, hopefully in a couple of days, to get a first-hand view of whats going on with it. I might actually be able to take a stab at it tomorrow. Whats the size of the EFI partition (sda1)? Reply Sventunus says: November 7, 2012 at 2:15 pm Looking forward to read your findings! If you dont come up with a solution in the next couple of days, Im wiping my HDD and will be experimenting this weekend. Cant afford to image/restore too many times right now, need the laptop 2 more days at work and nights are short The EFI partitions sda1 and sda3 are both 260MB in size. It looks like this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/151693/configure-dual-boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-12-04-with-or-without-efi and this: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=107620 might be worth a shot.

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Michael Leones says: November 7, 2012 at 8:07 am Thanks for the article. I assume you EasyBCD to bypass UEFI firmware restrictions. Am I correct? I have not play with this and I was planning to. Also have you tried Win 7 / Ubuntu 12.10 combo on a UEFI hardware? Thank you very much Reply finid says: November 7, 2012 at 9:13 am My PC is not OEM, so Secure Boot is not in play. Not done 12.10 and Windows 7 yet, but you may read for 12.01 and Windows 7 on UEFI here and here (with SSD and HDD combo). Should add one for Windows 7 and 12.10 soon. Reply

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