07-06-2014, 01:48 PM
skar,
If everything is working then you're just fine. So congrats on getting it up and running. Good job!
I think the fact that you wiped Windows 8 completely off the system helped a lot. That combined with you correctly telling the installer to erase and reinstall. My steps were more of a precautionary measure than mandatory in your case. If you had kept Windows on the computer, you would have had no choice but to perform things in a certain manner. Since you got rid of it, the LL installer could go ahead with the Legacy mode install in whatever way it wanted. The computer's UEFI settings must detect that the only bootable system installed is in Legacy mode and thus automatically boots in that mode. (That's my guess. There is probably a setting for only UEFI, only Legacy, or auto-detect and boot in either mode.)
My guess is that LL installed in legacy mode, but kept the GPT partitioning scheme. Linux can do that, Windows can not. If that's what it did, then it will have made an extra partition compared to the traditional MBR partition installation called a "bios_boot" partition. I'm curious to know if that's what it did, or if it automatically converted the disk to MBR partitions and did that kind of installation. If you don't mind, can you run these terminal commands to show which way it did everything?
(When entering password, nothing will show on the screen. That is normal.)
and
Just copy/paste the output from both of them back here to the forum.
Now that you've got LL installed, don't forget to run the initial updates to the system -- Menu -> Install Updates. Then you're all set and ready to go.
If everything is working then you're just fine. So congrats on getting it up and running. Good job!
I think the fact that you wiped Windows 8 completely off the system helped a lot. That combined with you correctly telling the installer to erase and reinstall. My steps were more of a precautionary measure than mandatory in your case. If you had kept Windows on the computer, you would have had no choice but to perform things in a certain manner. Since you got rid of it, the LL installer could go ahead with the Legacy mode install in whatever way it wanted. The computer's UEFI settings must detect that the only bootable system installed is in Legacy mode and thus automatically boots in that mode. (That's my guess. There is probably a setting for only UEFI, only Legacy, or auto-detect and boot in either mode.)
My guess is that LL installed in legacy mode, but kept the GPT partitioning scheme. Linux can do that, Windows can not. If that's what it did, then it will have made an extra partition compared to the traditional MBR partition installation called a "bios_boot" partition. I'm curious to know if that's what it did, or if it automatically converted the disk to MBR partitions and did that kind of installation. If you don't mind, can you run these terminal commands to show which way it did everything?
Code:
sudo parted -l
and
Code:
lsblk
Just copy/paste the output from both of them back here to the forum.
Now that you've got LL installed, don't forget to run the initial updates to the system -- Menu -> Install Updates. Then you're all set and ready to go.
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