Ubuntu boot issues · DIGIT-ARC

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I have a strange but not a new problem. When I try to run Ubuntu 13.10 live from the USB on my new hp notebook with win 8.1, my notebook screen turns off. I Google this issue and found lots of similar posts on many sites but none of the solutions made any sense to me. I tried connecting my tv via hdmi and interestingly it displayed the contents whike my notebook display stayed off. When i checked settings, ubuntu detected both displays. so i changed the res of my tv output to 1080p and idk how but my notebook display turned on. I saved the settings , disconnected the tv abd restarted but the same problem happened again. Any ideas how to fix this? btw i got a haswell notebook with intel 4600 and gt 740m.

I don't knwo the cause and solution of this problem, but the reason why saving settings didn't work is because (as you mentioned) you are running it as a live OS, where settings don't get saved unless you created persistent image.

@e33tad: Yuo, he is right.
Since you are using a USB drive to boot a live image.. just use "LiLi USB Creator" to give it a persistent space. Its one of the last option on the colorful UI of the tool.

e33tad said:
I have a strange but not a new problem. When I try to run Ubuntu 13.10 live from the USB on my new hp notebook with win 8.1, my notebook screen turns off. I Google this issue and found lots of similar posts on many sites but none of the solutions made any sense to me. I tried connecting my tv via hdmi and interestingly it displayed the contents whike my notebook display stayed off. When i checked settings, ubuntu detected both displays. so i changed the res of my tv output to 1080p and idk how but my notebook display turned on. I saved the settings , disconnected the tv abd restarted but the same problem happened again. Any ideas how to fix this? btw i got a haswell notebook with intel 4600 and gt 740m.

If you use Ubuntu frequently then why not install it ??

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Tried installing ubuntu but my pc always boots in win 8. No GRUB or any other boot option appear. Also idk how important it is but when i was installing ubuntu, the option install alongside windows did not pop up

how many primary partitions you have on hdd?

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I hope this answers your questions. BTW that 24gib partition was the recovery partition which is deleted.

Try to delete those unnecessary 400MB and 350 MB small recovery partitions as you have already deleted the major one and then install Ubuntu. I hope you will get alongside windows installation.

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Are you Sure? i don want to mess up the pc any further. I don't have a installation disc so if the pc doesnot boot, I will be screwed!

Ubuntu can only be installed on primary or extended partition. You already have four primary partitions which is the maximum primary partitions supported by windows 8 mbr. That's why told you to delete small recovery partitions as you have already deleted the main recovery partition.

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Then shrink partition to make space..

^^ Are you sure ? After shrinking C: drive, will he able to re-use the unallocated 24.83GB space?

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IDK about shrinking but i couldnot use extend the c: drive and absorb (lol exact words are not coming to my mind) that 24 gib partition.

e33tad said:
IDK about shrinking but i couldnot use extend the c: drive and absorb (lol exact words are not coming to my mind) that 24 gib partition.

Try doing the same using a 3rd party partition manager. Or by using Gparted from a live linux USB.

It's the problem I face in HP notebooks. Then I just increase the brightness.

sohan_92 said:
Ubuntu can only be installed on primary or extended partition. You already have four primary partitions which is the maximum primary partitions supported by windows 8 mbr. That's why told you to delete small recovery partitions as you have already deleted the main recovery partition.

His setup is EFI/GPT.He can have more than 4 primary partitions.NO hassles of extended partitions.I myself have 5 primary partitions on my laptop.

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EFI allows more than 4 partitions?

@kisame, thanks for pointing out the mistake.

so i did some research and found something useful.But it is complicated one.

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