I checked it all out, thanks. After taking a good look at Windows10 plus the hurdles now to dual booting; I set the bios to legacy and formated and put on only Xubuntu.
Xubuntu works good on his new laptop - the user is not complaining. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, at 09:03 PM, Tong Sun wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Lee Gold - [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just tried to dual boot windows 10 and Xubuntu on HP Pavillion 15 > > laptop. So I'm a bit behind the times - there's a new bios system, > > something called UEFI and this laptop along with Windows 10 seems to do > > everything to prevent being extensible and more useful by preventing a > > dual boot. Tried everything I could to make it work. > > > > Yeah, I know the pain, been there, done that. > > > > So it's goodbye to Windows forever on this laptop - it's going to be ALL > > Xubuntu ! > > > > Not so fast, if you still need Windows. Have you check this out yet? > > My Quest to Dual Boot EFI Windows 8 with Ubuntu > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0obnZkzX7aFyWqmx6zS1CrXEH_X9rRJUnBYeWWjJgU/edit#heading=h.hjmzej1mnr0j> > > Mind you, just as you've found, Windows now is doing everything to > prevent > you to dual boot, so it IS going to be a Royal PITA just to make it > works. > > YMMV. If you want to give it a try, everything you want to read have been > collected into that loooong file. Good luck > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users -- http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
