Dual Boot Asus Transformer UEFI?

JohnWayne2010 · Jul 9, 2014

I'm Trying to Dual Boot on my Asus T100 Tablet. When I turn off secure boot and select the Ubuntu drive it just flashes black and goes back to the bios screen before. There are not many settings in this Asus bios (v304) and there is no legacy mode that I know of. My Goal is to put OS X on it so I will have my own "iPad Pro" But I cant even get the machine to load Ubuntu. Please help if possible. Been trying to do this for a few months. I also tried a Dell Venue 8 Pro but the Bios had no Legacy Mode either.

MU_Engineer · Jul 9, 2014

JohnWayne2010 :

Linux supports UEFI booting but there is a BIG difference between computer UEFI and tablet UEFI even though both are using essentially the same processors. MS got Intel to lock down tablet UEFI to by default require Secure Boot (and signed bootloaders like those in Windows 8.1), make disabling Secure Boot optional, and make Legacy BIOS Mode optional. This is because MS didn't want to lose ANY x86 market to a non-MS OS like they lost the ARM phone/tablet market to Android (Linux) and Apple's iOS (BSD UNIX.) However, computer UEFI settings are a little more liberal as computer UEFI settings are to make Secure Boot optional and mandate the ability to disable it. and most if not all have a Legacy BIOS mode. I suppose MS didn't feel threatened there or computer OEMs balked too much about not being able to sell computers to the large number of businesses that still run the non-Secure Boot/non-UEFI-compatible Windows XP.

The ASUS T100 is a Secure Boot locked-down tablet. You can get Linux to run on one but it's very hit and miss. Here is an article describing somebody successfully getting Ubuntu to work on one of those tablets. It's certainly a non-trivial process.

JohnWayne2010 · Jul 9, 2014

MU_Engineer :

Thank you for your quick response. I actually saw his video on You Tube and tried it. It didn't work for me the first time, but there are more details in the article so I will try again using different settings in the Rufus App. In your experience do you think it is possible to eventually get OS X on this Tablet? By either using Grub 2 in Ubuntu or a version of Hackintosh. I have a Legal copy of Mavericks from my MacBook so the Hackintosh way is possible i guess. If I can find the right way to get it to boot from the USB.

MU_Engineer · Jul 9, 2014

JohnWayne2010 :

According to Apple putting OS X on anything except their white/silver, rounded, and exceedingly expensive hardware is against their EULA and you shouldn't do it. This is still against their EULA even if you bought a copy of OS X as Psystar (a company that sold "Hackintoshes") found out. I can't officially condone violating any EULA and you're on your own there with OS X on anything but officially blessed Apple hardware. Besides, I am an *nix guy who likes to get his hands dirty and OS X is to Linux like kissing your sister is to kissing a supermodel.

I think if you follow the instructions in the posting you should be able to get some sort of Linux to boot. You can always play around with GRUB2 and the kernel to see what works and what doesn't, and keep your USB stick that can boot a known-to-work copy of Linux on that machine handy to chroot in if you screw up. I've learned that from a lot of years running Gentoo Linux...

pitmancd · Jan 26, 2015

MU_Engineer :

JohnWayne2010 :

Linux supports UEFI booting but there is a BIG difference between computer UEFI and tablet UEFI even though both are using essentially the same processors. MS got Intel to lock down tablet UEFI to by default require Secure Boot (and signed bootloaders like those in Windows 8.1), make disabling Secure Boot optional, and make Legacy BIOS Mode optional. This is because MS didn't want to lose ANY x86 market to a non-MS OS like they lost the ARM phone/tablet market to Android (Linux) and Apple's iOS (BSD UNIX.) However, computer UEFI settings are a little more liberal as computer UEFI settings are to make Secure Boot optional and mandate the ability to disable it. and most if not all have a Legacy BIOS mode. I suppose MS didn't feel threatened there or computer OEMs balked too much about not being able to sell computers to the large number of businesses that still run the non-Secure Boot/non-UEFI-compatible Windows XP.

The ASUS T100 is a Secure Boot locked-down tablet. You can get Linux to run on one but it's very hit and miss. Here is an article describing somebody successfully getting Ubuntu to work on one of those tablets. It's certainly a non-trivial process.

Can you please provide me the link to this article?

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