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The Asus Transformer Book is a tablet/notebook device with a 10 inch touchscreen display, a keyboard
and touchpad, and an Intel Atom Z3740 Bay Trail processor. It ships with Windows 8.1 software, and it
works pretty well as a Windows tablet, notebook, or even desktop PC.
But what if you want to use a different operating system? Sure, you can do that too.
I was able to take Ubuntu 13.04 Linux for a spin on the Asus Transformer Book T100. At this point,
bunch of key features dont work yet, including WiFi or touchscreen support and the screen resolution
is stuck at 800 x 600 pixels. Ubuntu 13.10 wont boot.
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But I suspect it wont take developers long to figure out how to get Ubuntu and other operating systems
to support the Transformer Books hardware.
As of late October, 2013 its actually pretty tricky to convince the Asus Transformer Book T100 to boot
anything other than Windows 8.1. Its easy to get to the Windows advanced boot options or the UEFI
firmware options and spot the options that should let you boot a different operating system from external
storage. But most operating systems wont boot, and will instead just dump you back into the Windows
bootloader.
But developer paperWastage discovered that CloneZilla did boot. So by figuring out what made the
CloneZilla image special, paperWastage figured out how to boot Ubuntu Linux.
You can find detailed instructions at the xda-developers forum, but heres a simplified list of steps I took
to create a bootable USB flash drive using a Windows PC.
Warning: Note that these steps might not work for everyone and if you accidentally end up with a
computer that wont boot, Ill offer some troubleshooting tips, but youre entirely responsible for breaking
(and hopefully fixing) your own device.
Preparing a bootable Ubuntu 13.04 USB flash drive
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9. Click start.
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At this point, your computer will format the flash drive (and erase any data thats already on it so make
sure to backup any important files) and prepare it as a bootable drive that lets you run or install Ubuntu.
When the process is complete, move on to the next step.
10. Open an Explorer window and navigate to the newly prepared flash drive.
11. There should be a folder labeled EFI. Click it to open that folder. Then click the folder labeled
BOOT to navigate to that folder.
12. Copy the bootia32.efi file from step 3 into this folder (make sure youve unzipped it first).
Thats it. Your flash drive is now ready. Go ahead and eject it from your PC.
Booting Ubuntu on the Asus Transformer Book T100
The first thing we need to do is disable secure boot on the Transformer Book. Thats pretty easy to do,
with these steps. Note that you can complete these steps with the USB drive plugged in or without it
but I had a bit more luck without it.
1. Swipe from the right side of the screen to bring up the Charms menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Choose the Change PC settings option at the bottom.
4. On the following screen tap Update and recovery.
5. At the next screen, choose recovery.
6. Under the Advanced startup section, choose Restart now.
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7. This will reboot your device to a blue screen with large icons. Choose the one that says Troubleshoot.
8. At the following screen choose Advanced Options.
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I strongly suggest you use the Try Ubuntu without installing option at this point unless you really
know what youre doing. This will let you run Ubuntu without altering your Windows files at all.
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Keep in mind, you wont be able to use WiFi out of the box, since Ubuntu doesnt recognize the devices
wireless adapter. The screen resolution will be stuck at 800 x 600, which could look funny. And theres
no touchscreen support so while you can detach the screen from the keyboard, you wont be able to
do much with it.
The user interface may also be a bit sluggish in order to get the X Server to load a graphical user
interface, we had to delete the vesa graphics driver. It may be possible to load an alternate driver to
improve performance.
But now that we know its possible to get alternate operating systems to boot on the Transformer Book
T100, it should also be possible for people to figure out how to configure them to take advantage of the
tablet/notebook hybrids hardware.
How do I get back to Windows?
When you logout of Ubuntu you can shut down or restart the computer. If the system freezes (or youre
impatient), you can also press and hold the power button until the tablet shuts down.
You can then press and hold it again to restart the tablet. Unfortunately, youll probably be greeted by a
screen with the Asus logo and the text Preparing BitLocker recovery.
Heres how to get back to Windows from here:
1. Wait until you see a blue screen and choose the Skip this drive link at the bottom of the page.
Thisll take you to a troubleshoot screen like we saw in the section above. The only difference is you can
use the keyboard and touchpad to make your selections, but not the touchscreen.
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2. Choose Troubleshoot and then Advanced Options again, and then select UEFI Firmware Settings
and hit Restart.
3. Move over to the Save & Exit tab and select Restore Defaults and hit Enter.
4. Save Changes and Exit and you should reboot into Windows.
Troubleshooting tips
If step 17 and later in the Booting Ubuntu section, you may end up in the same Bitlocker recovery
section as listed above.
The good news is that you can use the same steps to get back to WindowsK but this time after you hit
the Skip this drive section, if you have your bootable USB drive plugged in, you should also see an
option to Use a device.
Select that option and choose the name of your drive on the next screen and you should boot into
Ubuntu/GRUB bootloader instead of Windows.
Make sure to be careful when playing around with the Advanced options menus. There are some options
that will reinstall Windows or even wipe your data.
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76 Comments
Luis Gonzalez
Hopefully, other OEMs and future ASUS Bay Trail notebooks don't make it so hard to boot another OS.
What WiFi card is this using? I wonder what's the issue with the resolution since the Ivy Bridge based
graphics should be pretty good on Linux.
Anyway, I'm skipping on this notebook (that's how I had planned on using this) and waiting on the Z3770
or Bay Trail M based ultraportables with more RAM and, hopefully, a 64-bit UEFI capable of booting
64-bit boot loaders.
Yuhong Bao
Yea, look for systems shipping with 64-bit Windows, which should ship with 64-bit UEFI firmware.
me
Ya, I'm going to wait on other 10" Bay Trail notebooks. My reasons are more superficial though.
2 GB of RAM is enough for what I intend to do on an ultraportable notebook. I would have
installed the 32-bit version of Xubuntu anyway in order to not get the issues related to having a
32-bit UEFI, 32-bit boot loader and 64-bit OS. I'm more concerned how that back/lid is so ugly
and shiny. Looks so tacky.
As for graphics drivers, the Ivy Bridge core is well supported in Linux but the hooks specifically
for Bay Trail are only in the more recent kernel and Mesa versions. They may get backported to
LTS kernels or by distros. I'd also like to know what WiFi chip this uses. Hopefully, it isn't a
crappy Broadcom chip.
CyberGusa
It's unfortunate that Asus decided to use the 32bit UEFI and I wrongly assumed they would not
make that mistake...
Most distros are also just still designed to work with BIOS instead of UEFI and all these mobile
Windows devices will be using UEFI exclusively...
Mind, the Linux Community has already released a boot loader that also has its own public key
and can work with Secure Boot enabled... So a lot of issues are just because the setup hasn't
been updated to work with UEFI yet.
Still, the issue is mainly with the distro itself, as shown by the limitations shown in this video,
because developers need to get a hold of the actual hardware to properly develop drivers, etc.
The Linux community has only started adding support, like Kernel 3.11 introduced support for
Bay Trail audio but it still has a bit to go before full support is native.
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