Note: As of right now, Ubuntu 15.04 will BOOT on a bay trail tablet, but it will not install correctly.
My guide is based mostly on this one, but with minor adjustments, and easier to follow instructions. This guide is tested and working on the Winbook Tw100 Windows 8 tablet (by Microcenter).
You may require:
- USB OTG (on the go) cable, for connecting the USB drive/keyboard/mouse
- A 4GB or more USB flash drive
- Any downloads mentioned below
- You will need to disable Secure Boot and change the boot order in your tablet's BIOS settings
Problem 1: Booting a 64-bit OS with a 32-bit UEFI BIOS on a 64-bit CPU (it's like a jigsaw puzzle)
- Download the latest Ubuntu 14.10 (64-bit) ISO file
- Download Universal USB Installer
- Use Universal USB Installer to create a bootable Ubuntu 14.10 USB drive
- Download this bootia32.efi file from GitHub
- Place the bootia32.efi file you just downloaded into the
EFI/BOOT/
folder of the bootable Ubuntu 14.10 USB drive you just created
- Download these two .deb files, and place at the ROOT of the USB drive
NOTE: due to broken links, files have been moved to Google Drive for permanent storage.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxPvhHHEJKxNTzZqX0VBdFNfZ2M/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxPvhHHEJKxNY25ZdW5KcEhLeG8/view?usp=sharing
- Connect the USB drive to your tablet and power it on
You should be presented with a screen like this, choose "Try Ubuntu without installing"
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pKagM.png)
Problem 2: Installing, and making the installation stick!
After Ubuntu has finished booting, manually partition your tablet's internal storage
1.5. If you want to Dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows 8, you'll have to do all your partitioning using Windows disk management
- After you have finished manually partitioning your tablet's internal storage, install Ubuntu like normal
- When the installation has finished, leave the USB drive connected to your tablet, and restart
- When you are presented with the GRUB screen again, hit the "C" key, and enter these lines of code...
you might need to change the "(hd0,gpt5)" and "/dev/mmcblk0p3" sections of code to suit your specific needs
linux (hd0,gpt5)/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic root=/dev/mmcblk0p3
initrd (hd0,gpt5)/boot/initrd-3.16.0-23-generic
Now enter the "boot" command. If you were successful, you should not have received any error messages, and booted into your freshly installed Ubuntu 14.10 installation. If you receive any error messages, try the last two steps again.
- Open a terminal, and enter "sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64"
after that has finished, open the USB drive, and install these two .deb packages in the order that they are listed
- grub-efi-ia32-bin_2.02~beta2-15_amd64.deb
- grub-efi-ia32_2.02~beta2-15_amd64.deb
Open a terminal, and type "sudo update-grub"
- Restart
And you're done!!! If you followed these steps very carefully, and to the letter, then you have a (not-so) fully functioning 64-bit Ubuntu 14.10 (and possibly Windows 8 dual-boot) bay trail tablet.
What doesn't work (this is a list for the Tw100, your tablet may be different)
- Sound
- Touchscreen
- Battery (ACPI)
- Accelerometer (tilting, screen rotation)
Check out this guide I did on how to boot Ubuntu 15.04 on bay trail tablets.
I installed Ubuntu 15.10 on my Liva X (which uses Bay Trail). I was following the same instructions, and got the same error.
To fix it, I booted to "Try Ubuntu without installing". I pulled up the Terminal, and typed
sudo apt-get install sbsigntool
Then I picked the "Install Ubuntu 15.10" icon on the screen. The sbattach error is now gone.
Best Answer
Here are the things that currently work with Ubuntu 15.10 on the most common Bay Trail hardware.
WiFi and Bluetooth do not work for 99% of Bay Trail SDIO chips.
Prerequisites
Section 1 - Prepare your USB drive
/efi/boot
folder in the USB driveSection 2 - Prepare your device
Depending on your desired setup, there are a few different options here. If you wish to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, you must do your partitioning from within Windows. If you wish to use Ubuntu as the sole OS for your device, you must do your partitioning from within Ubuntu. If you wish to use Ubuntu as the sole OS for your device, you will need to back up any files that you want to keep, using external storage such as a cloud drive, flash drive, or SD card.
Dual Boot - for those who want it all
Section 3 - the fun stuff
It is recommended that you Try Ubuntu Before Installing, this way you can at least see if Ubuntu will work on your device at all. Either way, you can start the installation process.
Starting Ubuntu
Choose Install Ubuntu and press Enter
Installation - the nitty gritty
Here is where we separate the dual booters from the single system users. It will get very complicated, so I recommend a cup of coffee and some ice cream.
Dual Boot Install
Copy all the settings found in the picture below.
Leave 1GB of space after the new partiton
Single OS installation - for the loyal
Booting the Installed OS - a new beginning
Enter the following into the command line
(You will need to change the bold text to suit your needs)
Installing Grub-efi-ia32 AMD64 - contradictory synonyms
Once you have successfully booted into your fresh Ubuntu installation, there is much that needs to be done before it can be reliably rebooted.
Open terminal, and enter these commands
(If you get any errors, you may need to connect to the internet, and run
sudo apt-get update
)Go to the root of your USB drive, and install the two files you placed there, in this order
(Double-clicking them should open the Ubuntu Software Center for easy installation)
After the files have been installed, open Terminal, and type
If you didn't receive any errors through this process, you should be able to reboot into Ubuntu (or Windows) without your USB flash drive.
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