) Hibernate works fine, IF you have manually created a large enough swap partition (the ubuntu installer does create a swap partition but uses it only during install, then leaves it unused, weird), and have not selected to encrypt your /home or whole drive. not possible from linuxĤ.) Useful keys during boot process: F2-BIOS, F4-Samsung Recovery, F10-UEFI Boot Menu. once done (and verified bootable) you can delete ALL partitions, everything needed to restore Win8.1 is on the stick.Ģ.) If you want dualboot with Win8.1, you can still delete the last two partitions (13GB and 1GB) to free up some space (after step 1), they are only OEM recovery related, win8.1 will still operate normally.ģ.) before installing ubuntu, run samsung software updater from within windows to check for BIOS update. (switching secure boot OFF and OS mode to 'CSR OS' also works of course if you can live without secure boot)ġ.) Create bootable Win8.1/Samsung recovery USB stick (min. So I installed Win8.1 again from recovery boot stick and went through the procedure above, worked. When I replaced the 128GB mSATA SSD with an empty 512GB SSD and installed Ubuntu (in EFI mode), installation succeeded but UEFI did not recognize ubuntu ('All boot options are tried.') - played with efibootmgr, no success.

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Win8.1, following procedure required as installer does not recognize Windows partition:Ģ.) Shrink the Windows partition (its the largest one)ģ.) create ext4 partition in freed space (mountpoint / )Ĥ.) installer should detect windows efi boot partition and uses it, no action required UEFI Secure Boot works, however need to disable Fastboot in BIOS so that USB stick is recognized. 4.) Hardware: pretty much everything works out of the box, besides fan-quiet mode and the internal microphone (see bug )

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