Sorry, forgot to add this link if helpful, as you were saying you did not have the back up emergency repair disk.....
How to Create and Use a Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc in Windows 8 Windows 8 allows you to create a recovery drive (USB) or system repair disc (CD or DVD) that can be used to troubleshoot and restore your computer. Each type of recovery media gives you access to Windows’ advanced startup options. ... http://www.howtogeek.com/131907/how-to-create-and-use-a-recovery-drive-or-system-repair-disc-in-windows-8/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=281212 gerald philly pa usa From: James Jolin Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 1:11 PM To: Linux Newbies Subject: Re: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Windows 8 and Linux install Having started this thread I have enough of a solution after reading all the various threads. If I want to run Mint 15 I just go into the bios and change boot priority to legacy and for windows I use ufei. Works until something better comes along. Thanks alot for the info. Jim On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Some Linux distributions offer keyed kernels. Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux I believe. That does not mean any Linux kernel can use secure boot though. I have not heard that UEFI was made by any mandate of the US government either. EFI was made by a consortium of corporations, including Intel, and some other big names, then extended by Microsoft into UEFI. Whatever the motives were the end result has been greater difficulty in getting Linux to run on machines that have UEFI. Not running Windows at all UEFI does me absolutely no good whatsoever. The next time I am shopping around for a new system I will be looking for non-UEFI alternatives for myself too. I probably won't run x86 architecture at all, but will go with something ARM based. In time I can see ARM being the dominant platform for running Linux on.
