On 06/01/2013 19:46, Barry Drake wrote:
On 06/01/13 19:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
You mean, turn it into a 'naked computer', without any resident
operating system at all. But the BIOS firmware is designed by
Microsoft to prevent undesired operating system software from being
loaded, and that would still be there, in ROM.
Correct. And that means that the only OS that you can lad would be
Windows 8.
Regards, Barry.
Oh, well. It will still be good as a backup machine, I suppose. And
maybe someone will find a way to outwit the firmware. I assume the
people who have manually resized the partitions and created new ones for
Ubuntu and its swap space, have achieved this. Their idea would be to
fool the firmware into loading Ubuntu without realising what it was.
Anyway, I'm going to pack it in for the night; I seem to have been
wrestling with it practically non-stop for 30 hours or so. Thanks for
all the suggestions. Doubtless this will be a useful warning for others
who might assume they could convert new Windows machines to Ubuntu in a
straightforward way.
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