08-01-2015, 07:39 AM
This thread that I started is now somewhat out of date.
I have already posted a modified transcript of Nehal J Wani's youtube video, including some notes/observations of my own, for installation of a win8.1/LL2.4 UEFI dual-boot on an Asus G750JS laptop under the 'Tutorials' section on this forum.
As mentioned in the Tutorial notes, disabling fast boot does indeed appear to avoid the problem of LL 'hanging' at shutdown, and I tried this in response to some of your suggestions in this forum - many thanks for this.
Disabling fast boot doesn't appear to significantly alter boot-up times on my system, which operates very rapidly anyway with two SSD drives installed (sda = win8.1 and LL2.4 OSes; sdb=shared data drive, including VMs). The advantage that comes with UEFI enabled is that my laptop appears to run much more snappily than in Legacy/BIOS, including boot-up/shutdown times and the graphics are greatly improved. So I would give a hearty thumbs-up for any UEFI support being integrated into future releases of LL.
Regards
Mike
I have already posted a modified transcript of Nehal J Wani's youtube video, including some notes/observations of my own, for installation of a win8.1/LL2.4 UEFI dual-boot on an Asus G750JS laptop under the 'Tutorials' section on this forum.
As mentioned in the Tutorial notes, disabling fast boot does indeed appear to avoid the problem of LL 'hanging' at shutdown, and I tried this in response to some of your suggestions in this forum - many thanks for this.
Disabling fast boot doesn't appear to significantly alter boot-up times on my system, which operates very rapidly anyway with two SSD drives installed (sda = win8.1 and LL2.4 OSes; sdb=shared data drive, including VMs). The advantage that comes with UEFI enabled is that my laptop appears to run much more snappily than in Legacy/BIOS, including boot-up/shutdown times and the graphics are greatly improved. So I would give a hearty thumbs-up for any UEFI support being integrated into future releases of LL.
Regards
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ Arm710@1.2GHz - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ i3-3110M@2.4GHz - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel T3200@2.0GHz - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel T7100@1.8GHz - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ Arm710@1.2GHz - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ i3-3110M@2.4GHz - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel T3200@2.0GHz - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel T7100@1.8GHz - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work