I bought an Asus X551CA laptop for my son which came with Win8 installed (now updated to Win8.1). I want him to be able to dual-boot to Ubuntu as we use 12.04 on our desktop and he likes apps like OpenShot & RoseGarden, but he needs Windows for some of the school work he does.
I initially had a similar issue to this post - managed to get the Ubuntu live CD (12.04.3 64-bit) to boot from USB after disabling secure boot etc, but for some reason after selecting the language when I try to install Ubuntu it reboots, taking me back to the beginning. Same happens if I select the option to try Ubuntu without installing.
The laptop came with 3 partitions on the single HDD: rescue, OS (windows), and Data. I shrank Data to allow me to create a 4th (50Gb) partition for Ubuntu...but does Ubuntu need more than 1 partition (eg for Grub?), and is this causing the reboot issue? My plan was to mount the Data partition in Ubuntu so he could access the files from both Windows or Ubuntu.
I'm conscious there may be an issue with Ubuntu 13.04 on this laptop - see this post - but I am not replacing Windows with Ubuntu, I want to run them both side by side, and am using the LTS release, so am hoping the Asus synaptics/elantech touchpad bug will not apply...
Any ideas greatly appreciated on how to get around this reboot issue when trying to install, and also if I can expect any issues running 12.04.3 on this hardware?
Update: this is not an duplicate of Installing Ubuntu on a pre-installed windows 8 64-bit system uefi supported (which is a great guide), as I am able to boot from the LiveUSB - the issue is that the Ubuntu installation reboots as soon as I select the Install option from the installation menu. I have managed to sort out the BIOS/EUFI/SecureBoot and Legacy Support issues, the issue now seems to be one of the installation itself.
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