I plan to buy HP ENVY Ultrabook 6t-1100 which comes with Windows 8, 32GB SSD and 500GB Hard drive. I however want to Dual boot it with Ubuntu. Any issues? Furthermore, would it be possible to install Ubuntu on SSD and Windows 8 on the standard Hard drive? Is it possible to disable UEFI from BIOS on this system?
Ubuntu – Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu on HP ENVY Ultrabook 6t-1100
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I have exactly the same problem with a new HP ENVY-4. I have tried all the suggested 'cures' above.
- Shrunk Windows using built in Windows "shrink". This freed up 226 GB.
- Ran
sudo gpartedwith a LIVE boot of Ubuntu 12.04 to partition the free disk space into extended partition and then partitions for system, swap and /home - The Ubuntu installer does NOT SEE ANY DISK DRIVE except the USB one it is running from. While 'gparted' sees the drive fine.
The original HP partitioning is (roughly)
4 Gb 'system' partition
400 Gb 'OS' partition
100 Gb 'recovery' partition
?? Gb 'backup' ? partition
My 'best guess' is that for some (unknown?!) reason HP has set up the laptop disk and controller using "FakeRaid" - which makes no sense to me since there isn't a duplicate disk with 500 GB to "mirror" the hard drive to.
I found this community reference for installing Ubuntu to a "fake raid" device but note that it doesn't cover Ubuntu 12.04 AND the instructions seem really complicated AS WELL AS being different for every version of system referred to (as well as hardware setup?):
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto
In short I tried digging into this but quickly was over my head and caused my computer to jump into RESTORE mode - which (in an hour or so) returned it to the "store bought" configuration.
I don't understand why the manufacturer created this mess to start with.
I don't understand why, since GParted can understand the hardware, partition it, etc. that (by now !!) the installer hasn't had this capability added to it.
OK, there is a lot I don't understand. Among them is how to follow the community instructions to successfully install Ubuntu 12.04 on my new laptop.
I miss my old Sony, on which comfortably ran Ubuntu for many years. I thought problems like this were behind Linux as the community has grown and large corporations have begun adding support for Linux. I guess I was wrong about this too.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
I was, eventually, able to successfully install Ubuntu on my HP Envy-4, but in the process of getting there (rebuilding Windows 7 several times) I had damaged Win7 RECOVERY partition - so it is not dual-boot with Win7, but it is dual-boot with other Linux distributions.
I documented this (last) process in a .pdf which I put up on Dropbox for access.
Hopefully it will provide some information that will help for others who are dealing with the challenge of installing Ubuntu on the Envy-4 ultrabook.
Try the following
cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep Name
Output should include > Elantech Touchpad
If so download the following
Open a terminal, and follow these steps
cd ~/Downloads sudo dkms ldtarball psmouse-elantech-x551c.tar.gz sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v elantech-x551c
sudo rmmod psmouse sudo modprobe psmouse
HTH
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You may want to check out my Web page on EFI boot loaders for Linux. It's not really an EFI primer, but it does have some basic information on it, and on options for how to boot Linux on an EFI-based computer.