Dual boot after updated Bios with Linux... Solution

I'm sure that this may be common knowledge for many but I had a devil of a time after I flashed my bios and tried to install a Linux distro. My Windows 8 install went fine on a SSD but I couldn't get my Linux hard drive in my second hard drive caddy in my CD/DVD slot to boot. I'm a goof though. I was using the Linux guided install instead of doing the partition myself and defining / That worked. The Boot files of course go in the Root partition but the distros I used grouped them with the home folder.
I figured this out with my Fedora install. So my solution was to partition the target hard drive with a live DVD. Make a / partition and a home partition and swap. Then load up the distro and go. I hope I've helped someone and that Google pulls this up with a search.

Quote from: ghost.u94 on 13-June-15, 18:41:14
solved- it was the dimm 3 and 4 which got errors.
not using dual channel now. only using DIMM1,2 but at least it boots up.
Then your board is most likely defective. Reseat cpu and see if pins in the socket are bent. Else it might be the slots or their wiring.

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I hope that somebody has some suggestions, and thank you in advance.
I am helping out a friend who has inherited a 2881-22U. I have managed to successfully upgrade to an 120GB HD and copy the Recovery partition to the drive. (Hey, you use what you can in education). I have gone through the reinstall process successfully several times, and have worked for two weeks with several test WinXP loads so I know that the system works properly.
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If I put the original 30GB drive back in, it also fails loading Windows XP at the same spot, now that the BIOS has changed.
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Go to Solution.

Solved the problem:
Got the 1xuj15ud.exe diskette BIOS update and got it transferred to a USB flash drive (kind of hard to use a diskette when the system does not have a floppy drive).
Did the update. Reset the BIOS settings again. Voilà, Windows starts loading again.
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Quote from: ghost.u94 on 13-June-15, 18:41:14
solved- it was the dimm 3 and 4 which got errors.
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Then your board is most likely defective. Reseat cpu and see if pins in the socket are bent. Else it might be the slots or their wiring.

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DSpider wrote:
drobole wrote:If you want to change it so that sda becomes sdb and sdb becomes sda, you should be able to do that in BIOS.
Not from the BIOS. He would need to physically open up the computer and switch the cables between them (or add another drive).
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The flash process hanged during the update and the laptop became unbootable, blank screen when powering on and nothing else...
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Hi buddy,
You should check the forum content or with other words, use the forum search firstly before you ask something. Failed BIOS update is not unusual and can happen always. The forum contains already a lot threads about this and the only solution is contacting an ASP. The guys have professional tools to recover it.
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Thanks to the original poster. I bought a laptop and I did the Bio update. I had an issue on my old laptop and i took out the power supply and that worked.
Now with this one after the update it would not turn on or do anything. I could not get to the bios or nothing as it was dead for the most part. It would trun on for a few seconds and I panicked as this is a lot of money to spend of a dead computer.
I have limited income and I was beside myself. I thought after taking the battery out and putting it back it continued to do it that it was dead. I picked me up and did a search on the web and eventually found this thread. I did what the oriingal poster did. I think leaving the battery out so it resets is the primary issue. I did both the on button in case. Yeah I know it don't make sense but I did it.
It is now working. It booted up and I am playing a CD in it.
My other laptop basically in direcly was stolen. Well not quite. I loaned it to my son and the car he had it in got impounded. I had my info on it so it could be returned but it was never retruned. I would like it back as it was realiable but it had the same issue to turn on at one point. Battery taken out fixed it.
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I did read bad reviews of it as well as good. It is companies are doing anything to make a profit. It is why I stand for the resource based economy where planned obsolence will be history.
HUGS TO YOU GUYS.
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I'm trying to install Arch Linux on my computer where I already have Windows 8, and I'm getting a little stuck when it comes to the partitioning.
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sudo make sandwich wrote:If it is possible to share ESP between OSes, how do I do this (would it be sufficent to follow this section: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#For_UEFI_motherboards)?
There's really very little to do to share an ESP between OSes. Most OS installers will auto-detect the ESP and use it. Problem solved. For Arch it may be a bit more effort just because Arch uses a more hands-on installation process, but I've only done a couple of Arch installations, and the last one was several months ago, so I don't recall the details clearly enough to comment.
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