Hi :)
Thanks :) Ahh, i meant the secure boot had been enabled and that's what i
switched off in order to be able to boot from Cd/Usb and having it off seemed
to prevent Win8 from booting.
I got an off-list answer that also suggested it was fairly easy
"
Hello Tom,
Which distribution do you want to install?
if Ubuntu, just follow the procedure described at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI .
Regards
Yann
"
I suspect most of that link might work with pretty much any distro with just a
bit of simple figuring out but since it is Ubuntu that i am trying to get onto
that laptop the link is perfect!
Many thanks, especially to Yann and Andrey! :D
Regards from
Tom :)
>________________________________
> From: Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]>
>To: Tom Davies <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 18:50
>Subject: Re: Win8 Uefi support?
>
>
><snip />
>
>All modern Linux distributions support UEFI. I would be very surprised if you
>could not boot Linux because of it. But system with Windows 8 likely also
>supports and has enabled UEFI secure boot. Which can prevent booting from
>removable media (there are reports about it).
>
>Check whether secure boot is enabled and whether it is possible to disable it.
>
><snip />
>
>Yes, grub2 supports UEFI.
>
>> alternatively
>> Can Win8 be made to boot-up via Grub2 with Uefi off? Chainloading?? (dunno
>> what that means but it sounds nice)
>>
>
>That is more question for Windows support forums - is it possible to
>boot Windows on legacy BIOS if it was installed on UEFI? If yes, grub2
>will be able to boot it.
>
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>
>
>
>
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