The ASUS "Bay Trail" T100 Is Not Linux Friendly

[DanL]

Fire up a puppy

Puppy uses some ancient components, and we're talking about 2GB of RAM here, not 256MB...

[paperwastage]

my first post contained urls, and has been sent to the mod queue awaiting approval

anyways, I managed to get ubuntu to boot up.

you need a 32-bit EFI GRUB at <usb drive>/efi/boot/bootia32.efi

here is the manual URL

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500078

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35652212&postcount=1500

EDIT: first posts containing URL are placed into pending, but first posts without URL are allowed, and can be edited to contain URL... yay

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[cataphract]

Can't you netboot?

[paperwastage]

Phoronix: The ASUS "Bay Trail" T100 Is Not Linux Friendly

Last week I bought the ASUS Transformer Book T100TA, which is one of the first Intel "Bay Trail" devices in the United States. At a cost of $399 USD, it isn't as cheap as some Bay Trail devices talked up by Intel, but I was eager to see how the "Valley View" graphics would perform and all-around how this Atom SoC would run under Linux. Sadly, the ASUS T100TA appears to be a crap wreck at this point for running Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ5NzE

don't give up

I managed to get ubuntu booting to command line via grub x86 EFI (ia32)

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35652212&postcount=1500

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500078

[BSDude]

I'm a lot more interested to know if Asus is going to release a native Android for it.

This thing is meant to be a tablet - it's not a laptop for Linux.

With just 2GB (there's no way to expand it) of RAM T100 is useless both for Windows 8 and for Linux.

Fire up a puppy

[DanL]

With just 2GB of RAM T100 is useless both for Windows 8 and for Linux.

Nonsense. That's more than enough RAM for using Linux (and probably Windows 8 as well) to do tasks you would do on a tablet.

[birdie]

I'm a lot more interested to know if Asus is going to release a native Android for it.

This thing is meant to be a tablet - it's not a laptop for Linux.

With just 2GB (there's no way to expand it) of RAM T100 is useless both for Windows 8 and for Linux.

[[Knuckles]]

Glad to know this, I was seriously thinking of picking one up, but it's sad it's such crap.

[GreatEmerald]

Welcome to the world of firmware issues, where companies keep releasing super broken firmware.

One thing to try is to replace Windows' bootmgfw.efi with the GRUB2 one. Although doing that off Windows itself might not work all that well...

[darren.l]

It's a long shot but...

Not sure if you have run into this before, but on my wife's Acer I had to put in a BIOS password for all options before it would let me turn off the secure boot and then put UEFI back to legacy bios, but at that point Linux installed like a charm. Not sure if the Asus even has that option, can't tell from the screens in the article. Like I said, still a long shot...Good luck. Just read online, no legacy options. Damn.

BTW your captcha to register is terrible to navigate, the images suck to i.d.