On 13Sep27:2054+0530, Balamurugan wrote: > On 09/27/2013 04:08 PM, David L. Craig wrote: > >Your fact is not. I installed Debian Sid on a G500 a few > >months ago and it dual-boots with Win8. The trick is to > >use the smaller alternative power button to the right of > >the large power button, which ignores Legacy. Perhaps > >other Lenovo laptops are not so equipped but the G500 is. > Hi David, > > Till last month, I have installed close to 10 installations of > GNU/Linux OS as dual boot with Windows OS(XP and Windows 7). This > particular Lenova Laptop which had Windows 8 installed in UEFI mode > had issues in installing Ubuntu. When I try to insert the Ubuntu > (12.04 LTS) in USB boot stick, it is not even recognizing the OS. > The machine detects Ubuntu only when I turned off UEFI to Legacy > mode. > In the same time, I purchased my own laptop (Dell vostro 2420) which > was pre-installed with Ubuntu. When I checked that, it was turned to > Legacy boot by default. Also as per the technical journals I read, > GNU/Linux don't have their own UEFI authorizing keys. Can you please > correct me with some more details, If I am wrong.
I am at a disadvantage because I relinquished the laptop about a month ago to be returned to Lenovo for warranty repair and the memory is somewhat dim. The BIOS was configured for Legacy boot. I enabled USB booting in the BIOS as needed and kept it normally unenabled. I installed Linux Mint XFCE into a hard drive partition. I discovered the main power button will always boot up Win8 in UEFI mode but the smaller power buttona, designed for the Lenovo One-Key recovery facility, brings up a boot menu that includes the hard drive partitions and USB drives if such are configured as bootable. I hope this is helpful. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130927223435.ga3...@dlc-dt.home