Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?

Have you considered running Windows in a VM under Debian?
It would let you use both at the same time, rather than having to reboot 
to switch.
I have Debian Jessie + KVM/QEMU running on a T540p with (2) SSD's (2.5" 
+ m.2).

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Shawn Hughes
Brighton I.T. Solutions, LLC
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On 9/17/2017 20:50, Bill Harris wrote:
> Has anyone installed Debian on a Lenovo Legion Y520?  The Debian 
> Installation Manual for Stretch makes it sound straight-forward to do 
> in general: repartitioning the disk on the fly, dealing with UEFI, and 
> being sure to turn off secure boot. That sounds like it could create a 
> dual-boot or a Linux-only machine.
>
> But It doesn't mention the fake RAID aka Intel RST.  Are there 
> instructions that take that into account?
>
> I'm willing to consider leaving the partition that seems to be on the 
> SSD alone (it's /Windows, I believe) and split the 1.8TB partition 
> into something like 300 GB for Windows, something for /boot, something 
> for / (perhaps 500 GB?), and the rest for /home.
>
> If it's both easy and foolproof enough, I'm also open to wiping out 
> everything and installing Stretch.  I've set up dual boot on the last 
> 2 or 3 machines I've had and then almost never booted Windows.  If a 
> Debian-only box worked, I guess I could put / on the SSD (or, better, 
> the fake RAID) and have a faster machine.  Can you update the BIOS 
> from Linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill