I've tried installing Ubuntu several times as a standalone OS on my Toshiba Portege z935 which has a UEFI Bios and came pre-installed with windows 8 and it does not work. Is it really only possible to dual boot with Windows 8?
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Yes is it possible. You said you previous attempts at installing failed. What happened exactly? – Oct 31 '14 at 04:05
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I would install Ubuntu and it would be successful. However after restarting it wouldn't boot. My hard drive was basically not being recognized. – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:08
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GRUB. What method did you use to install. Something Else? – Oct 31 '14 at 04:11
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I just booted the live USB and installed the distribution to my hard disk following the prompts. – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:12
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The Boot Loader should have been installed. Would you like me to create a Q&A where I go through the process of Installation for you? – Oct 31 '14 at 04:17
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If you can I would appreciate it. – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:19
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Give me 7 mins. I will reply with a link to the quesiton. – Oct 31 '14 at 04:19
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Okay. I appreciate it. – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:27
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Taking longer than I anticipated. You want to completely remove Win 8? – Oct 31 '14 at 04:42
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1I'm sorry haha, I was waiting for you. And Yes. Windows 8 is already removed. The hard drive is empty. – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:43
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Thanks. I'm coming through shortly How much Space is on the hard drive? – Oct 31 '14 at 04:44
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It is a Sold State Drive with about 120 GB of storage – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:45
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last request: `sudo parted -l`from terminal what's the output for the SSD 120GB disk? paste output [here](http://paste.ubuntu.com/) and paste link as reply. – Oct 31 '14 at 04:49
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http://paste.ubuntu.com/8755886/ – rrtorres1991 Oct 31 '14 at 04:53
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[see here for answer. Sorry for the long wait.](http://askubuntu.com/questions/543895/how-do-i-install-ubuntu-14-04-on-toshiba-portege-z935-using-something-else-qan/543896#543896) – Oct 31 '14 at 05:30
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But OP does not want to dual boot – Zanna Apr 19 '17 at 05:14
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Fedora and Windows install a file called \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64.EFI (x64 is the architecture and can be something like ARM too) in the EFI System Partition (ESP) which allows to boot an application or operating system when the NVRAM entries (storage on the mainboard) to boot a certain OS are not available or missing. Ubuntu currently doesn't provide such a file, which results in a non-bootable installation in these cases.
You can follow these instructions which install and configure Gummiboot for such scenarios. You can even configure this for secure boot. I already filed a bug, but it doesn't seem to get taken seriously.
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