Re: [OCLUG-Tech] reconfigure laptop disk for linux? EFI boot issue.

2018-02-19 Thread J C Nash
Thanks. Will try and report back. I found an item on installing LM 18.3 where fellow had same problem and found a weird workaround (run gparted during install, just to scan disks, then exit. ?? Will see what happens). Best, JN On 2018-02-19 01:03 PM, Scott Murphy wrote: > Well, disabling

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] reconfigure laptop disk for linux? EFI boot issue.

2018-02-19 Thread Scott Murphy
Well, disabling secure boot won’t break anything, so you can test away with it off. If you want to re-enble it, you have a few hoops to jump through in order to tell secure boot you have a signed linux boot to select from. There are a lot of HOWTOs on getting secure boot to work with a linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] reconfigure laptop disk for linux? EFI boot issue.

2018-02-19 Thread J C Nash
Scott pointed out that EFI does not have 4 partition limit. So I went ahead and resized. Win10 still worked. Then tried Linux Mint install (live USB works fine). Made main and swap partitions as sda5 and sda6. But on restart got Secure Boot Violation. Tried again, watching progress, and GRUB