[ale] Fought Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 (resolved)

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

On 04/09/2015 03:34 PM, Tom Freeman wrote:
> For what it is worth, this is by way of "Thank you" to the list. If 
> you are not actually interested, delete and feel good about this 
> online community.
>
> Short story - as per something mentioned months ago on this list, when 
> dual installing Windows and a Linux, Windows first with ___lots___ of 
> disk, let Windows resize things, and then Linux. Great pain seems to 
> follow any other procedure.
>
Just a week ago I installed Mint 17 along side of an  8.1 winders system 
on a new Lenovo laptop.  I also split the drive in half using the MS 
disk utility and created a swap and root partition via gparted.  Linux 
installed and booted up fine, but when I tried to boot the 8.1 partition 
it gave me errors and suggested it could either restore everything from 
scratch or just copy some files over.  I elected the latter since I 
didn't want to start over.  And it worked.  Now I have a dual boot 
Lenovo laptop.  I did have to go back and remove the Superfish crap and 
some of the extra garbage that Lenovo thinks I need but that wasn't a 
big deal.

I did have to turn off the secure boot before the thumb drive would even 
boot, contrary to some of the articles I've read.

Jim.