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So I should disable legacy? also my plan was to boot from ubuntu and install grub via the live usb. however I could not get ubuntu to boot because of the 346 drivers for Nvidia. thanks again for all your help.
So I should disable legacy? also my plan was to boot from ubuntu and install grub via the live usb. however I could not get ubuntu to boot because of the 346 drivers for Nvidia. thanks again for all your help.
Do you really need the proprietary drivers? If you're not playing 3d games in linux, you might be ok with the open source nouveau drivers. While they don't have anywhere near the performance as the proprietary, they do have a tendency be easier to manage (since they're part of the kernel, they upgrade whenever the kernel upgrades), and the performance for normal desktop usage is quite good (I use them on my desktop).
And yes. There's absolutely no reason 95% of people need legacy roms enabled, so by all means, if it's enabled, disable it and it'll make installing linux easier.
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 09-20-2016 at 12:06 AM.
I dont need the proprietary drivers, I just cannot boot ubuntu without it (i think?), if not then I have another problem. however that is beside the point if I can just install Debian. This might be stupid, but I cannot find the legacy switch in my BIOS. here are some screen shots. sorry if it is blatantly obvious. I'm a noob. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1...UJJWU1aOXc1a3M
also sorry for the quality :|
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I wish I could find the install guide I used for this laptop but, in essence, I didn't install GRUB to the MBR but, instead, to the relatively small /boot partition I created during the install stage. Then I told the machine's UEFI to boot from that partition not the Windows one, ran update-grub from inside Debian, rebooted and had myself a dual-boot system using GRUB to choose. I could, if I wanted, tell the UEFI to boot from the Windows partition instead though and not see GRUB but boot straight into Windows instead.
I dont need the proprietary drivers, I just cannot boot ubuntu without it (i think?), if not then I have another problem. however that is beside the point if I can just install Debian. This might be stupid, but I cannot find the legacy switch in my BIOS. here are some screen shots. sorry if it is blatantly obvious. I'm a noob. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1...UJJWU1aOXc1a3M
also sorry for the quality :|
Yeah, I do belive your firmware doesn't have the option to change your legacy roms. That's....interesting.
Yes, you can boot into it. Or, more properly, you can boot a live USB and chroot (change root) into it. I'm currently at work, if by the time I get home noone else has explained how to do that, or posted directions on how to do that, I will. It's not simple, but it's not actually very hard. That will allow you to actually log into the installed distro from a live USB and you can then "apt-get install grub-efi" which should then allow you to boot normally to either Debian or Windows from the grub screen.
I could not boot from debian live cd... im not sure why.
I looked at the pic's of your BIOS. Particularly paying attention to the pic of the "Boot" section.
I saw that the quick boot was enabled. You can try disabling it as it might be preventing the CD from booting up.
Aside from that set your boot order so that the CDROM drive is the first choice.
If the CD doesn't boot than wait for Timothy to teach you how to boot from your BIOS.
OK, so if you can't boot with anything, this is going to be REALLY hard to do, but I'll still put this here.
So what we want to do is boot to some live cd/DVD/usb, mount your installed system, then chroot into it to be able to install grub-efi. Since I believe in allowing people who know far more than I to explain it better than I can, here's a fantastic link for following to do chroot restores. It's also well layed out because the writer made sure to explain exactly what you were about to do at each step, so that following it you actually LEARN, and don't just follow instructions without having a clue what you're doing. I really like when articles are written like that, as I still have a lot of learning to do myself.
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 09-20-2016 at 10:58 PM.
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