Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1
On 08/28/2014 04:45 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:44 -0700
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> This was no help. Only one suggestion was new to me: disabling fast
>> startup in Windows. I did that but see no difference.
>>
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> That may have been inspired by something I originally posted, but
> wouldn't be relevant here. The easily accessible Windows 8 shutdown
> command does nothing of the sort, but goes into (I believe) standby to
> RAM. It is necessary to dig into the Power entry in the charms to
> actually turn off the power. Standby is OK when you know you will be
> using the machine again within 24 hours or so and the battery is full.
>
Minor correction here: The fastboot is a hybrid hibernate, not
suspension. The userspace stuff closes as in a normal shutdown, but
then the OS hibernates and the system powers off. The OS/driver/services
state is saved and restored from the hibernate file. It's not a normal
hibernate, since the user stuff isn't saved, hence "hybrid".
> The fast boot feature appears to be a dynamic initrd, which stores
> pretty much the full OS state on disc at shutdown (having kept it in
> a state of near-readiness at all times, otherwise the shutdown would
> take forever) and allows a very fast boot. But this will only affect
> what happens after the Windows boot code runs, and hence would not help
> or hinder you here.
>
You are correct that it shouldn't affect bootloader selection. It's
important if you plan to resize the windows partition or otherwise
access it, though.
- PaulNM
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