Monday, April 13, 2015

UEFI Ubuntu boot on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon


  • 128GB SSD as internal primary
  • Removed recovery partition to thumb drive
  • Shrunk main partition by 20GB, to make room
  • Created partition from the free space (I think ?)
  • Downloaded Ubuntu Kylin 14.04.2 LTS
  • Used unetbootin to burn to thumb drive (another one)
  • Installed Ubuntu to the free partition...this went normally
  • Rebooted
  • No GRUB, went straight into Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Ran the following command:
    • bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi
  • Rebooted
  • Now GRUB appears and Ubuntu loads, but Microsoft Windows 8.1 boot manager failed to boot, with error 0xc000000e


Turns out BIOS was set to both UEFI and Legacy, with a preference for Legacy. Switching this to UEFI allowed Microsoft Windows 8.1 to load.

Loading into Ubuntu and running the following failed, the first time, because I had booted into Legacy mode:
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair  
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install boot-repair
  • boot-repair 
So, I switched BIOS to use both UEFI and Legacy, but with a preference for UEFI. Then, I booted from the Ubuntu installer thumb drive. I selected Try Ubuntu, ran the above (after connecting to the wireless router), and voila, after following the instructions and using the defaults, a reboot now allows the choice of both.

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