Windows 8 (or, more likely, UEFI) warning.

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> writes:
>
> UEFI is why I switched to Fedora.  It was the only distro at the time that
> supported UEFI out of the box, and even then, it was a little clunky.

It's why I switched to buying Linux preinstalled.

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> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>
>     Wouldn't boot to Linux.  Well, okay.  Let's try Windows 8.  Wouldn't
>     boot to *Windows*.  First it tried to do a repair of some sort -- failed
>     miserably.  Then it wouldn't get further than the "Dell" splash screen.
>     Eventually wound up disabling UEFI secure boot, which allowed it to go
>     into Windows -- whereupon I gave it back to the by-now very nervous
>     laptop owner, and let the damn WiFi be.
>
> Lucky you!
>
> I bought a new system from Best Buy (I know, I know...) and tried to dual boot
> it to Mandriva.  Somehow I ended up bricking it.
>
>     Bottom line -- I think we, as Linux weenies, are gonna have to play
>     with damn UEFI and get a feel for it.  Is it uniform across vendors?
>
> Yes, we will.  Right now, I know of no decent boot editor utilities and none
> at all that run from within Linux.
>
>  
>
>     Can I always go for the "disable secure boot" option (which would,
>     presumably, allow me to boot Linux)?
>
> I think that may be vendor specific and possibly even windows installation
> specific.  
>
>  At the moment UEFI documentation is junk.  Cross platform implementation is
> even worse.
>
> Brian