Duel boot Aspire es13-332-c5kn

Hi, Ive been left my mothers laptop an aspire es13-332-c5kn with 32Gb of emmc memory.

I want to duel boot with Linux lite as the update for win10 has expired(2017) why this laptop was only sold with 32Gb of memory I don't know.

I have added a 1Tb ssd which is shown in the boot menu.

After some difficulty I managed to partition and install Linux lite 5.4.

On restart the system booted into win10.

Ive set boot list to USB device, ssd, win10 boot manager.

Ive set secure boot to custom.

Ive set F12 to show on boot.

Ive tried easybcd and Linux Lite shows but is grayed out as this function is not allowed.

Is there any way to duel boot with this system.

If not if i delete win10 and install Linux Lite to the emmc memory will this work as a stand alone Linux system. I not bothered about keeping win10 as its out of date and other software is beginning not to support this version.

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66Drew66

N:\efi\Ubuntu

66Drew66

N:\EFI\Ubuntu>dir /a

JackE

Well, looks like it loaded the grub.efi file on the emmc. Which is OK as long as it also loaded the Linux EXT4 system on the SSD. The only way to see that is with GPartEd or a FileManager or terminal prompt on either the Linux installation boot stick if it's available, or you have to make a bootable GPartEd stick. Google gparted live usb for instructions on how to make one.

66Drew66

This is what gparted shows from the installation drive

JackE

OK. Now click on the dropdown in the upper right corner to look for sda and sdc devices.

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66Drew66

Sda and sdc are the drivers on my other linux system.

JackE

What?? SDA and SDC are not drivers. They are storage devices.

Storage device C (SDC) is probably the Linux installation stick on the other machine. Storage devicc A (SDA) is probably the boot drive on the other machine.

Please post a phone photo of each GPartEd dropdown on only THIS ES1-533 machine, NOT the other machine.

padgett

a) to use UEFI the disk boot64x.efi file must be in the BIOS directory.

b) if you clone a drive it also clones the boot64x.efi file and has the same signature as the original disk.

c) my BIOSes do not recognise two disks with the same signature. May refuse to boot either.

d) I use RUFUS to create a UEFI/GPT drive with a different signature for a second disk if want it to boot.

JackE

Please post a phone photo of each GPartEd dropdown on only THIS ES1-533 machine, NOT the other machine. It looks like the BIOS is locked to the original EFI partition. It might be modifiable but may require re-installing Win10, which on an emmc chip with limited space can be questionable.

That's why it's important to see the GPartEd dropdown screen because it might be as simple as relabelling the M: and N: ESP partitions to get the BIOS to look at the other EFI partition.

66Drew66

Sorry predictive text. that should have been drives.

I cant get a gpatred live usb drive to work it's just being ignored.

Is there any other way that you would recommend.

Thanks

JackE

To boot from a live GPartEd USB drive, you must start tapping the F12 on startup or it'll be ignored.

66Drew66

The other drives.

JackE

The Linux system installed as expected and looks correct. The issue seems to be the blk0p1 partition on the emmc. The BIOS seems locked into it. We might be able to force the BIOS to look at sda1 partition on the SSD. So boot back into Windows elevated command prompt.

(1) Enter 'diskpart'

(2) Enter 'list volume'

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66Drew66

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List volume

JackE

OK, at the diskpart prompt, enter

(1) select volume 0

(2)'assign letter M

(3) select volume 2

(4) assign letter N

(5) list volume'(to make sure M and N are assigned

(6) exit

Then at the command prompt enter

(1) N:

(2) label

(3) At the label prompt enter 'oldesp'

(4) M:

(5) label

(6) At the lable prompt enter 'esp'

Go back to diskpart and enter

(1) list volume (to make sure it looks something like the following image)

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66Drew66

Ok got that.

Rebooted and came back as.

padgett

Did you add the new partition's bootx64.efi file to the BIOS directory ?

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JackE

As I recall, this option is not visible in the Security tab even with Ctrl+S. It is at least part of the problem with this laptop. The other issue is that rebooting apparently auto deleted the drive letter assignments. About all I can suggest at this point is a BIOS firmware update to see if the BIOS chip can be re-directed to look at the grub efi. Because it now appears to be locked onto Windows boot efi on the emmc chip.