I know this may seem a little bit duplicated, but my problem is more worse. It's like this:
I have got a Win 8 tablet pc, which uses EFI boot option instead of UEFI. But what make it worse is that it seems like the tablet doesn't support USB boot options. It just doesn't have this module when you go into boot menu and select it.
And, as well suggested by most articles, wubi should not be used. As a matter of fact, I've tried every way I can get and failed.
After all, I just hate Windows and want to install a Ubuntu on it, whether it's Desktop or Touch. Can anyone tell me some possible approaches, or should I just give up? Thanks very much.
Best Answer
Installing and running Linux on this device is a challenging task. It would require intermediate to advanced knowledge in Linux.
This is because the Linux kernel shipped with Ubuntu Desktop doesn't entirely support the hardware(It's made for Desktops!), and so many non-critical hardware like WiFi, Audio, Webcam may not work. Still it's possible. But the ultimate solution
Hence you will have to try third-party kernel modules, find and install opensource drivers for not-working hardware manually, test different kernels etc. to get the entire system working.
That being said, here is a good guide which will get you going. Some excerpts from the page which answers your question:
You need to boot Ubuntu USB on the device. As mentioned in the above page, this computer has a UEFI firmware without legacy mode emulation (or disabled). What we will do is to load grub on the device and manually boot Ubuntu from it. Fot this, you will need a externally powered USB hub, and two flash drives, one with the boot loader and other with Ubuntu.
Go to the UEFI menu and Disable Secure boot. To make a bootable USB stick, format the other USB drive in MBR format with a single FAT32/LBA partition (type 0x0C) and put the bootloader as
EFI/boot/bootia32.efi.Generate the grub image with the modules specified in the guide.
Boot into the USB and GRUB should load.
Now manually boot into the Ubuntu USB from the grub command line. Here is a good webpage describing the process.