[Linux Mint] Feedback after installing Ubuntu 20 on asus T100-TA (Linux Mint 20 actually, but yeah...)

[FrankwaP]

Hi!

I haven't followed the whole tutorial so I'm just going for quick feedback in the issues. Also I installed Linux Mint (instead of Ubuntu) might have saved some extra step such as the "Hardware video decoding". Finally I have a train in 2h, so it's time to focus on something else, and I won't have access to my mom's T100-TA for few months...

The good news:

1. WiFi works out of the box!
2. Sound works out of the box!
3. Bluetooth seems to work out of the box. I have not tried it but the bluetooth icon does not show any error.
4. Video streaming is fine!
5. One can install "using the whole disk" --meaning erasing/recreating the original EFI partition-- though I admit I did it by mistake…

Now, you will face a problem while installing grub-efi-ia32 with apt install grub-efi-ia32. The problem is due to unrecognized EFI variables. I found the fix in this link “EFI variables are not supported on this system”. One only needs to add /sys/firmware/efi/efivars in the loop given in the tutorial "to mount some other filesystems before chrooting":

for dir in /dev /dev/pts /proc /run /sys /sys/firmware/efi/efivars;
  do mount --bind "$dir" /target/"$dir";
done

Aaaaand… done!

Thank you for putting up such a great tutorial! My mom now has a faster computer with more free space and a common sensed user interface!

[kaju666]

Thanks this helped me a little ;)

Unfortunatly after command grub-install my Asus t100taf always stopped responding.

So to fix that freeze problem i need to boot again using live Linux mint and do below commands.

sudo -s

mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /mnt

mkdir /mnt/boot/efi

mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/boot/efi

for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys; do mount -B $i /mnt$i; done

(where mmcblk1p2 is the root partition and mmcblk1p1 is the EFI system partition)

chroot /mnt /bin/bash

sudo grub-install --no-nvram --efi-directory /boot/efi

sudo update-grub

And nów laptop is working really nice :)