On 06/01/2013 17:03, Barry Drake wrote:
My gut feeling is that creating partitions etc is still not going to have any effect. My understanding of UEFI is that the BIOS monitors anything that is trying to install and rejects all bootable files unless they are signed in a way that allows booting privilege. This means that the missing files you spoke of will be the Linux kernel itself. I'm talking off the top of my head here, so forgive me if this is not the right information. I'd certainly go back and return the item - probably saying that you find Windows 8 'unuseable! I wouldn't put up with it myself!
Well, I'll go back and talk to them. I won't formally return the thing. Right now, it's all I have that works. But I've ordered another laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed, from the Linux Emporium, which I should get within a week or so, unless my bank gets freaky at my buying two laptops within a week. I really need Ubuntu because all my personal files, including over 2,000 LPs, are on my external hard drive, using an Ubuntu-friendly file system which Windows cannot see at all.
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