This should not be a problem at all. I have dual booted both win 8 and win 7 with linux. The question is whether you want to do it with Secure EFI, EFI, or BIOS only modes. I am double full your Win 7 box shipped with secure EFI but you may have to figure out exactly what state the firmware is in and which partition type you need to support it.
I am a fan of vanilla EFI. However there are a lot of things that get done to mess up the EFI to work with win systems. The crazy partition setup that has a gpt and a protective messed up MBR partition that is used is a real mess. So for Win 8 I went back to BIOS only mode. Win 8 is happy to install on a MBR partition on a BIOS only mode device. You just need to be clear at the end state you are shooting for. And the current state of your windows partitions and disk partition label. Most configs are possible if you are starting from scratch. Getting there from one or the other can be problematic. For example if you take win 8 secure laptop and reinstall linux on it you may get a non working partition table. Because of the protective MBR GPT stuff I mentioned above. I spend way too much time dealing with a partial install before I went back to BIOS only mode. On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Dan Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I thought that by buying a Windows 7 computer I would avoid the dual boot > problems posed by Windows 8. A couple months ago I bought a HP > h8-1360t with Windows 7 installed. Unfortunately, it appears that this > computer is unfriendly to dual boot even though it runs Windows 7. > > Can anyone tell me how to dual boot kubuntu 13.04 on my Win 7/HP h8-1360t? > > Thanks, > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
