bind-home.conf not binding to /home on LL2.4/win8.1 UEFI dual boot set-up

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Thanks for the answers -- very helpful.

I should add that when I went back into LL using a live LL DVD, following your instructions, I did this in legacy mode (fast boot off, secure boot off, CSM on).

Yes, I knew you'd have to do that -- not a problem for doing what you were doing.

6.  Can you still boot into Windows without any problem and if so, are you using its entry shown in grub menu to boot into it, or are you booting to it some other way?

YES, I choose the windows entry on the grub menu. This is working fine, booting rapidly into Win8.1 (less than 10 seconds)

Part in red is potentially a key clue.

If you did not disable Fast Startup in Windows 8, I believe it defaults to just going into a hibernated state when you shutdown.  That is what enables it to boot very rapidly when you startup again.  If Windows is in that hibernated state, that may be causing the boot problem because it might be protecting (or interfering with) the DATA partition (which is NTFS) in some way.

I'm not sure if that's the problem or not though.  If it was, then I would think your accessing the partition with the commands before would also have failed.  But I don't know that because I have ZERO experience with Win 8 or accessing hibernated drives.  Also, I don't know if you'd see the grub menu or if Windows would just resume itself if it were in a hibernated state.  So, this may a completely wrong speculation on my part.  Just to be sure, boot into Windows, then follow instructions here to turn off Fast Startup and do a full (real) shutdown.  Then try booting into LL.


If that didn't work, there is one thing about your fstab file that I didn't notice before.  This line:

Code:

UUID=34A0C4C82DE3D9D1   /mnt/DATA   ntfs-3g   defaults, windows_names, locale=en_US.utf8   0   0

(I believe) Should be:

Code:

UUID=34A0C4C82DE3D9D1   /mnt/DATA   ntfs-3g   defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8   0   0

The second version has no spaces between "defaults, windows_names, locale=en_US.utf8".  I'm not 100% sure, but I think that does make a difference.  Boot with live LL again, mount the Root partition and edit that fstab file with the change.

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
gksu leafpad /mnt/etc/fstab

Make your edit in the file, then save and close.

Code:

sudo umount /dev/sda6

Reboot and see if that made any difference.