Ubuntu and Win 10 dual boot Envy 17 laptop

[Aj59]

oh..

after disabling Legacy boot, the DVD is booting after all in UEFI

One problem is this beautiful 4K display is almost impossible to read...

I sure hope that top default option was "Try Ubuntu without installing..."

It took much longer to start the Live CD that way...

[Aj59]

It let me manually do the partitioning per this link and I did not get the error prior to installation about the partition table format...but nothing installed and it just sat there with the wheel spinning.

[Aj59]

an error about ubiquity failing..

So now I am going to try from a USB drive after I first remove the 3 linux partitions using the Windows disk management tool.

[CF4]

Hi

Ubuntu should manage to create a / ;  /home and a Swap  and format and mount those partitions.

[Aj59]

Ubuntu did manage to create those partitions but not copy anything to them.

I will try again later today with a fast USB flash drive. maybe that will help.

If the laptop has 16GB RAM is it really necessary to create double that for swap space? Seems like a waste of 30GB of the SSD.

[CF4]

Hi

Quite right.

If the laptop has 16GB RAM is it really necessary to create double that for swap space? Seems like a waste of 30GB of the SSD.

I have about 4 or so, usually the last bit after making all the main partitions.

[Aj59 · Accepted solution]

Okay.... we're cooking with gas now!!

After obtaining a new superfast USB flash drive and using Rufus to install the .iso onto it (took 2 min on the Envy versus 4 hours on my old desktop) the install (using EFI) went off without a hitch. Using a DVD just wasn't working.

It's actually amazing how fast it will boot into the Live disk via USB 3.0... it is almost instantaneous.

In fact, I went back into windows and let the disk manager reclaim the space to Win 10 and then let the Ubuntu installation take 100 gb of that.

The install took maybe 10 min.

Now I can boot into Ubuntu from the BIOS boot options, which is fine.   I am wondering how to get those two old SUSE options out of there short of doing a complete system restore.

I did turn off the Windows Fast startup and hybernate options and secure boot is off.

I do apologize for my first post where I suggest the problem was the HP laptop... Windows 8/10 and UEFI is the culprit that takes some learning about.

[CF4]

Prego.

"Okay.... we're cooking with gas now!!"

The Gordon Ramsey of Ubuntu.

Sorted / Solved?

[WsDime]

A huge thanks for this solution! It worked perfectly. For some reason the live dvd will not install and it hangs.