installing Fedora on ASUS R503U

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe out the other OS.

My question is what I should add to the boot option in the BIOS in lieu of the Windoze Boot Manager. Normally, the bios entries for machines I have previously installed says "Hard Disk" and I never bother with it much. Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance and best wishes,
Ranjan

[JD]

On 06/04/2016 10:20 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe out the other OS.
>
> My question is what I should add to the boot option in the BIOS in lieu of the Windoze Boot Manager. Normally, the bios entries for machines I have previously installed says "Hard Disk" and I never bother with it much. Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks in advance and best wishes,
> Ranjan

Sounds like it's how MS is getting manufacturers to sabotage the BIOS to 
discourage users of *nuxes and *nixes and variants.
Perhaps you can look for an alternate bios and flash it.

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 10:29:22 -0600 jd1008  wrote:
> On 06/04/2016 10:20 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe out the other OS.
> >
> > My question is what I should add to the boot option in the BIOS in lieu of the Windoze Boot Manager. Normally, the bios entries for machines I have previously installed says "Hard Disk" and I never bother with it much. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
>
> Sounds like it's how MS is getting manufacturers to sabotage the BIOS to 
> discourage users of *nuxes and *nixes and variants.
> Perhaps you can look for an alternate bios and flash it.

One can get and install alternative (generic?) BIOSes? Sorry but this is news to me. Is this what we are looking for?

https://www.coreboot.org/

Ranjan
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[JD]

On 06/04/2016 10:40 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 10:29:22 -0600 jd1008  wrote:
> > On 06/04/2016 10:20 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe out the other OS.
> > >
> > > My question is what I should add to the boot option in the BIOS in lieu of the Windoze Boot Manager. Normally, the bios entries for machines I have previously installed says "Hard Disk" and I never bother with it much. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance and best wishes,
> > > Ranjan
> >
> > Sounds like it's how MS is getting manufacturers to sabotage the BIOS to
> > discourage users of *nuxes and *nixes and variants.
> > Perhaps you can look for an alternate bios and flash it.
>
> One can get and install alternative (generic?) BIOSes? Sorry but this is news to me. Is this what we are looking for?
>
> https://www.coreboot.org/
>
> Ranjan

Since the windows boot manager is in the bios,
you will probably not be able to use it to boot linux
from the internal drive.

Another possibility is to use windows' own alternate boot option.
I have never used it, but I have see others refer to it.

[Adrian Sevcenco]

On 06/04/2016 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came with
> Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot Manager,
> Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe out the other

i think that you are in UEFI mode and you see the Windows Manager that
registered itself to EUFI list of bootables ... you can choose "sda"
(your actual drive) and then install a linux.

HTH,
Adrian
> OS.
>
> My question is what I should add to the boot option in the BIOS in
> lieu of the Windoze Boot Manager. Normally, the bios entries for
> machines I have previously installed says "Hard Disk" and I never
> bother with it much. Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks in advance and best wishes, Ranjan

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:55:46 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco  wrote:
> On 06/04/2016 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came with
> > Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot Manager,
> > Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe out the other
>
> i think that you are in UEFI mode and you see the Windows Manager that
> registered itself to EUFI list of bootables ... you can choose "sda"
> (your actual drive) and then install a linux.

So, do I add a new boot and say "/dev/sda" or just sda? Again, I am planning to erase Windoze so there should only be the linux partitions.

I could not find the option for disable UEFI but i can see and install from the live cd usb.

Many thanks,
Ranjan
> HTH,
> Adrian
> > OS.
> >
> > My question is what I should add to the boot option in the BIOS in
> > lieu of the Windoze Boot Manager. Normally, the bios entries for
> > machines I have previously installed says "Hard Disk" and I never
> > bother with it much. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance and best wishes, Ranjan

[Adrian Sevcenco]

On 06/04/2016 07:09 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:55:46 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco
>  wrote:
> > On 06/04/2016 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came
> > > with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot
> > > Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe
> > > out the other
> >
> > i think that you are in UEFI mode and you see the Windows Manager
> > that registered itself to EUFI list of bootables ... you can choose
> > "sda" (your actual drive) and then install a linux.
>
> So, do I add a new boot and say "/dev/sda" or just sda? Again, I am

i think that it's only a list you can choose from ... don't you have
an sda in the list?

Adrian

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:23:11 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco  wrote:
> On 06/04/2016 07:09 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:55:46 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco
> >  wrote:
> > > On 06/04/2016 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which came
> > > > with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze Boot
> > > > Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora and wipe
> > > > out the other
> > >
> > > i think that you are in UEFI mode and you see the Windows Manager
> > > that registered itself to EUFI list of bootables ... you can choose
> > > "sda" (your actual drive) and then install a linux.
> >
> > So, do I add a new boot and say "/dev/sda" or just sda? Again, I am
>
> i think that it's only a list you can choose from ... don't you have
> an sda in the list?

The "list" includes Windoze Manager, Generic Flash, UEFI Flash, etc, no sda.

However, there is a "Add Boot" something option. Clicking on that asks for what to add. I presume that I should add the name of the partition here?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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[Adrian Sevcenco]

On 06/04/2016 07:33 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:23:11 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco
>  wrote:
> > On 06/04/2016 07:09 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:55:46 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco
> > >  wrote:
> > > > On 06/04/2016 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am trying to install Fedora on an old ASUS R503U which
> > > > > came with Windoze8. The boot options in the BIOS have Windoze
> > > > > Boot Manager, Generic USB, etc. My plan is to install Fedora
> > > > > and wipe out the other
> > > >
> > > > i think that you are in UEFI mode and you see the Windows
> > > > Manager that registered itself to EUFI list of bootables ...
> > > > you can choose "sda" (your actual drive) and then install a
> > > > linux.
> > >
> > > So, do I add a new boot and say "/dev/sda" or just sda? Again, I
> > > am
> >
> > i think that it's only a list you can choose from ... don't you
> > have an sda in the list?
>
> The "list" includes Windoze Manager, Generic Flash, UEFI Flash, etc,
> no sda.
>
> However, there is a "Add Boot" something option. Clicking on that
> asks for what to add. I presume that I should add the name of the
> partition here?

i have no idea .. you should check the user guide of that machine
but it would not hurt just to play around and see what happens..
if you want to reinstall anyway you have nothing to lose..

Adrian
> Many thanks, Ranjan