[clue] M$ win 8 and dual boot Linux with the same hard drive
ed
ezedtheamerican at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 18:12:28 MST 2012
I am just getting into what I am sure is going to be a learning experience....
btw win 8 lasted about 2 hours before I yanked the drive and replaced
it with my flavor of Linux...openSUSE.
Yeah I know there are some people who prefer Ubuntu, but I can't see why.
Debian maybe.. but Ubuntu... pfft.
Ok, so I will get into more detail as this dual boot situation unfolds.
I got a clonezilla image of the win 8 drive ( 1TB ) just after
purchase of this "high" end laptop so I am not totally unprepared I
guess.
anyways I did a cursory look at the win 8 drive and it appears to have
multiple partitions ( each of which are probably fragmented beyond
belief and contain nothing but secret background intelligent service
stuff so M$ can make sure I login to their website so I can purchase
apps )
anyways enough about win 8 and its totally chaotic approach to the interface...
I should have waited to get the touchscreen laptop, but hey times are tough.
So yeah I'll see if I can get this laptop to dual, but I the whole
idea of running the sata controller in legacy mode to boot Linux and
then running the sata controller in "normal" mode to get win 8 up
seems like a cheesey work around...
wish me luck, and if you got any pointers, hints, or otherwise snide
remarks let me know.
Ed.
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