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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Installation of Ubuntu 14.04.1 in dual boot with Windows 8.1 on Lenovo Notepad G50-45

There are many visitors to this post through Google Search when they look for suitable Linux Distribution for Lenovo G50-45 but this is an old post and I recommend that anyone looking to install Ubuntu on this Laptop should go for Ubutu 16.04 LTS and not 14.04, however, if you are looking for instructions for Dual Boot with Windows you should read this post but install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS which has no issues.

Lenovo Notepad G50-45 Specifications:
Model Name 80E3
CPU AMD E1-6010 1.35G
RAM 2G
HDD 500 GB
Display 15.6″ HD LED
OS Windows 8.1 WB EM

I downloaded 64 Bit Desktop ISO of Ubuntu 14.04.1from Ubuntu and used it to create USB Start up Disk from Ubuntu 12.04 on another machine.

After shutting down the Windows 8.1, I inserted the USB Start up Disk in USB port on the Lenovo Notepad and pressed the NOVO button as shown in the diagram below:

The display brought the BIOS screen below:

I selected Boot Menu and selected to Boot from USB, on Grub menu I selected Try Ubuntu and could boot into Live Ubuntu 14.04.

In Live Ubuntu every thing worked well except I could not mount the Windows NTFS partitions getting errors that Windows was not shutdown properly, although I had selected to shutdown while in Windows. After reading about shutdown of Windows 8.1 I decided to shutdown Windows completely by running following command:

Once again I started Ubuntu Live session as above and I could now mount the NTFS partitions. I could have resized NTFS partitions using gparted but decided to do it in Windows.

In Windows I tried to shrink C:/ partition but was not allowed to shrink more than 50%. Once again after reading on the net I did following settings in Windows as advised on this blog:

1.Disable Hibernation
2:Disable Paging in C Drive temporarily
3:Diable System protection in c Drive temporarily

After doing the above settings I could shrink the partition to the extent I desired (48 GB for Windows 8.1). I created new NTFS partition leaving 80 GB unused for Ubuntu installation.

Once again I started Ubuntu Live session and created one EXT4 and one SWAP partition to be used for Ubuntu. Then I decided to check whether Windows 8.1 is accepting these changes or not by booting into Windows. Everything was Ok in Windows. Windows had a Recovery partition on the hard disk which I could copy to a USB disk.

Finally I decided to install Ubuntu on the EXT4 partition. After the installation I could boot into Ubuntu as well as Windows from grub installed on MBR.

The Laptop had Radeon Display Driver and the default ati driver was not working properly. After installing proprietary fglrx driver it is ok.

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[SOLVED] Mint 17.2 UEFI USB install — Lenovo G50-45 & N580

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[SOLVED] Mint 17.2 UEFI USB install — Lenovo G50-45 & N580

Post by bbaker6212 » Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:19 pm

This is just to inform people who may have problems with Installing/booting from a USB with a Lenovo notebook.
I have both a Lenovo G50-45 notebook as well as an older Lenovo N580 notebook and this will likely be the same with other G50-70 or G50-80, G50-* machines.
Both were able to boot with a 17.2 Rafaella USB drive with either 64bit Cinnamon or Xfce. Some details of my experience which may help.

* make sure to verify the MD5 to make sure the ISO download was not corrupted. I hit this problem. http://winmd5.com
* BIOS settings: I did not have to enable «legacy» support. I had:
** UEFI enabled
** set «other OS» optimized on last/right bios setting (not Window OS optimized)
** USB boot was enabled and set as first in the boot order — above/in-front of the hard disk and network
** Disabled «Secure Boot». If this option does not show up make sure that UEFI is enabled. It’s possible it may work even with SB enabled but I did not test it.
* I used Rufus v2.2.668 in Windows 8.1 to create the bootable USB with all default settings (fat32, quick format, ISO image) — https://rufus.akeo.ie/

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Re: [SOLVED] Mint 17.2 UEFI USB install — Lenovo G50-45 & N5

Post by JOPETA » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:39 pm

I’m not sure default Rufus setting will help. If there are special problems with your machine please say it clear. If not, to be sure you boot and install in UEFI mode recommended Rufus setting must be partition schemes: GPT for UEFI systems.

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Chip Искусственный Интеллект (104982) Если его нет из коробки, то это не значит что его нельзя установить. Или на винде ты тоже другую винду качаешь, если из коробки какое-то устройство не определилось, вместо того чтоб установить драйвера?

По железу любой. Даже кривожопая Ubuntu со своей жрущей как не в себя Unity поедет, хоть и хреново.

А так, нет никакой разницы, что за ОС семейства Линукс у Вас установлена. Приложения одни и те же. Простота и удобство для него в графической среде, а она выбирается любая. Просто и удобно — KDE и XFCE, сложно и неудобно — Unity и Gnome3

Пользоваться нужно ТОЛЬКО стабильными самостоятельными операционными системами и НИКОГДА экспериментальными полигонами типа Fedora и openSUSE или говносборками типа У*бунты или таво Минта.

Если речь про Linux для персонального компьютера, то их (не считая многих, которые интересуют только их создателей) десять: Mageia, Debian, Arch, KaOS, Alt, PiSiLinux, Slackware, Gentoo, RHEL, SLED. Выбирайте сами.

Бесплатных восемь (минус RHEL и SLED).

Легко устанавливаемых не специалистом пять (минус Arch, Slackware, Gentoo) из оставшихся с интенсивным русскоязычным сообществом три (минус PiSiLinux и KaOS) из оставшихся с нормальной регулярностью выпусков два (минус Alt)

Из оставшихся со свежим ядром и программным обеспечением один (минус Debian)

Ubuntu — в основе пакеты из тестовой ветки Debian с добавлением собственных кривоглючных приблуд, верхом нелепости которых является Unity, к тому же ещё и с разрушенной системой прав, что создаёт проблемы безопасности и с выполнением некоторых административных задач. Mint — криво пересобранная Ubuntu, но с вариантами графических сред, относительно приличных. Не то, чтобы ими обоими вовсе нельзя пользоваться, но это риск и требует опыта. Категорически не рекомендую новичкам.

И есть сайт http://distrowatch.com/ на котором представлены все никсовые ОС, включая все Линуксы. Но посещая его нужно помнить предупреждение его администрации: «рейтинг» категорически НЕЛЬЗЯ использовать для оценки КАЧЕСТВА и ПОПУЛЯРНОСТИ той или иной операционой системы. Он не это показывает, а то, с каких операционных систем с уникальным IP заходили на сайт. Например, у нищих интернет с динамическим IP — их ОС всегда будет первой в рейтинге, их сосчитают не один раз, а сколько раз зайдут.

Для того, чтобы ознакомиться с той или иной ОС, есть виртуалка: Oracle VirtualBox и WMVare player. Оба бесплатные. Так что ставьте на виртуалку и сравнивайте, что больше понравится.

Мюнхгаузен Искусственный Интеллект (123252) Ubuntu и стабильность — понятия несовместимые в принципе. Даже если с XFCE.

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Lenovo G50-45 graphic drivers

Post by Katamo » Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:26 am

another Linux Mint newbie having a problem . Hope you guys can help me .

I have a lenovo g50-45 notebook. Because windows 7 became way too slow and after trying windows 10, I now went to Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon (64Bit).

The thing is that this system too does work very slowly from time to time. But in a way that I believe, this is related to the graphic card drivers (I think I know this behaviour from windows systems with no graphic drivers installed). Can’t really pin-point that, just a gut feeling. So, since I am a linux newbie, I have no idea how to install the latest drivers and make things work. I even don’t know, which kind of graphic chip I have built in there.

1.) how to find out, which graphic chip is built in

2.) how to install the most suitable drivers and make it work. At best in a step-by-step tutorial or something, for dummies. .

Thanks for your support. Really looking forward to working with linux in the future.

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Re: Lenovo G50-45 graphic drivers

Post by Pjotr » Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:36 am

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
— launch a terminal window and make it full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
— copy/paste this command into the terminal:

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

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Re: Lenovo G50-45 graphic drivers

Post by TheDoctorTARDIS » Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:56 pm

Same hardware, same problem except I have crashed that Windows8.1 virus completely.
Found this unresolved post, got these results.

doctor@doctor-Lenovo-G50-45 ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: doctor-Lenovo-G50-45 Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: System: LENOVO product: 80E3 version: Lenovo G50-45
Mobo: LENOVO model: Lancer 5B2 version: 31900058 WIN Bios: LENOVO version: A2CN27WW(V1.09) date: 12/12/2014
CPU: Quad core AMD A6-6310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 14372.5
Clock Speeds: 1: 1000.00 MHz 2: 1800.00 MHz 3: 1000.00 MHz 4: 1800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] bus-ID: 00:01.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: fbdev,ati (unloaded: vesa,radeon) Resolution: 1366×768@76.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 9840 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Card-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n driver: wl bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1020.7GB (5.0% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST1000LM024_HN size: 1000.2GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: File size: 4.9GB 3: USB id: /dev/sdc model: File size: 15.6GB
Partition: ID: / size: 354G used: 44G (14%) fs: ext4
RAID: No RAID devices detected — /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.2C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 187 Uptime: 3:06 Memory: 1432.3/6877.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17
doctor@doctor-Lenovo-G50-45 ~ $ ^C
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