You will need to put the file found below into your EFI/Boot directory:ĭisable Secureboot and such-follow the original instructions link if you don't know how.
'For “Partition scheme and target system type”, choose “GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer.”' You can get the latest daily build here: To summarize, what you need to do is download the latest Ubuntu 14 daily build (AMD 64 is what worked for me) and put that on a USB drive via Rufus. Any help is appreciated, and thank you all so much!ĮDIT 4/1/14: Just booted into Ubuntu on my DV8Pro! All you have to do is follow the instructions here: Again, I don't really know how to do any of this.I'm just hoping someone can help!ĭell Venue 8, 11 Pro, Toshiba Encore, Acer w3, w4, Lenovo miix, and the asus transformer a100 are all tablets that will be affected by this.I think these are going to be incredibly popular tablets once their prices go down, and I think people are really going to get interested in putting linux on these. I don't really know how to work with this stuff, but I'm hoping that some people who do will read this and either contact canonical or somehow patch Ubuntu (or any other distro, really) to work this way. I'm trying to start a thread dedicated thread on 32-Bit UEFI support, because that is the piece that is missing (from what I understand). Others have tried this before with mixed success, but haven't gotten things to work quite right: It will show up on more embedded systems as time goes on." However, there are a slew of new tablets coming out running 32-bit UEFI, and I think this is a trend that is going to continue to grow: That thread was specifically about getting the Dell Venue 8/11 Pro to boot Linux. "Ubuntu has no 32-Bit Uefi installer, ask them to add support, they may listen." I got information from several sites, but where it was really summed up was in this previous post: From what I have gathered, what really needs to happen is 32-bit UEFI support. I have read online about what it needs in order to boot into Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. Dexter, an address book and Postler, an email client), and Nautilus Elementary, a simple file manager.I recently purchased a Dell Venue 8 Pro. Some of its more interesting features include a new GTK+ and icon theme for GNOME, the Midori web browser, new applications developed in-house (e.g. This distribution uses Gala as its window manager, which is based on Mutter. It makes use of a desktop with its own shell named Pantheon, and is deeply integrated with other elementary OS applications like Plank (a dock), Midori (the default web browser) and Scratch (a simple text editor). Elementary is crafted by designers and developers who believe that computers can be easy, fun, and gorgeous. Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution.
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