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Everybody dual booting Windows and Linux (or any other *nix derivative) surely has different hours when booting back to Windows from Linux. Well, that's because Windows manages the clock in "local time" instead of UTC which is what most other OSes do (such as Linux). According to this Lifehack (http://lifehacker.com/5742148/fix-windows-clock-issues-when-dual-booting-with-os-x) there's a workaround in order to force Windows to use UTC. It's a simple registry entry that starts working as soon as you reboot your PC back into Windows. I'll copy it here for posterity in case LH ever runs into trouble and disappears. Search for: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation Right click anywhere in the right pane and hit "New > DWORD (32-bit) Value". Name it "RealTimeIsUniversal". Double click on it and give it a value of "1". That's it. Just reboot back into Windows and check that (if your cloc...

Create two Linux partitions (type 83), one for /boot and the other one for the rest of the OS. Try to use GPT (cgdisk instead of fdisk) in order to later on use the UUID trick on the bootloader. For /boot, 200 or 300MB should be enough. Remember to format /boot as ext2 and the other partition as ext3/4. Once you're all set, download ALARM's tar.gz file. Extract the OS tar.gz (tar zxfv) to the ext3/4 partition. Then move the /boot from the ext3/4 partition to the ext2 partition. Now, edit fstab file on the ext3/4 partition and while leaving the existing lines, add these lines: /dev/sda1   /boot        ext2    defaults,noatime     1 2 /dev/sda2   /            ext4    noatime              0 1 That should be it. Unmount everything, plug the drive into ...