[SOLVED] Asus G750JS - has anyone installed LL on this?

[N4RPS]

Hello!

This thread that I started is now somewhat out of date.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.

Yes, sir - and it's very good. Used it myself not too long ago.

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.

 
You wouldn't happen to have an AMD/ATI Radeon video card, would you? There's a fix for that, and it lets me (and a few others) secure boot AND shut down without the agonizing wait. You can find out more here:

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/start.../#msg13891

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.

I guess the best way for that to happen is to help Jerry out in that regard, by getting him a laptop/desktop that supports UEFI.

Meanwhile (unless I am oversimplifying all this), as I see it, all Mr. Wani seems to be doing is shimming in the UEFI GRUB bootloader. If the UEFI patch is implemented on a current LiveCD and a new LiveCD is created from it, that should bring UEFI to LL.

Changes to Ubiquity (installer) might also be needed, but I doubt it. If the community can help, we just might have UEFI support in LL sooner than we think...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob