Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Joe
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:58:50 -0400 PaulNM wrote: > On 08/28/2014 04:45 PM, Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:44 -0700 > > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > > > > > >>> This was no help. Only one suggestion was new to me: disabling > >>> fast > >> startup in Windows. I did that but see no diff

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread PaulNM
On 08/28/2014 04:45 PM, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:44 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > > >>> This was no help. Only one suggestion was new to me: disabling fast >> startup in Windows. I did that but see no difference. >> >> >> > That may have been inspired by something I originall

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Joe
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:44 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > > This was no help. Only one suggestion was new to me: disabling fast > startup in Windows. I did that but see no difference. > > > That may have been inspired by something I originally posted, but wouldn't be relevant here. The e

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > On 28/08/2014 19:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Windows can't be the culprit -- it did not get control between the >> grub-update and the reboot, and even the first reboot went right to >> Windows. So there's something that GRUB failed to do.

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Ooops. Ignore that trailing "did not work". It was offscreen as I edited. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ron Leach wrote: > >> On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> >>> On reboot, it went unconditionally to Windows 8.1.

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ron Leach wrote: > On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> >> On reboot, it went unconditionally to Windows 8.1. No signs of GRUB. >> It seems I'm still missing something. I wonder what. >> >> > Kevin, is it worth cross-checking that the boot/BIOS is set

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Ron Leach
On 28/08/2014 19:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Windows can't be the culprit -- it did not get control between the grub-update and the reboot, and even the first reboot went right to Windows. So there's something that GRUB failed to do. That's a compelling remark. But, might it be that Secure Boo

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Ron Leach
On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On reboot, it went unconditionally to Windows 8.1. No signs of GRUB. It seems I'm still missing something. I wonder what. Kevin, is it worth cross-checking that the boot/BIOS is set up like this: http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch03s06.html#

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Sarunas Burdulis < saru...@math.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/27/2014 03:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I have a laptop that came with Windows 8.1, that uses "secure boot" (EFI) > > and GPT partitions. > > > >

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-27 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2014 03:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have a laptop that came with Windows 8.1, that uses "secure boot" (EFI) > and GPT partitions. > > Using windows tools, I shrank the main Windows partition. > > Using the Xubuntu 14.04.1 AMD-64 Desktop

Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have a laptop that came with Windows 8.1, that uses "secure boot" (EFI) and GPT partitions. Using windows tools, I shrank the main Windows partition. Using the Xubuntu 14.04.1 AMD-64 Desktop DVD, I created a root and a swap partition in the hole I had created. I installed Xubuntu. Everything