<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">My optimism was wildly premature. The fist time I tried booting to Windows after the Ubuntu install, everything worked fine. But after that, Ubuntu wouldn't boot. I reinstalled Ubuntu. I also ran the boot repair utility i Ubuntu. Windows booted once after that. I tried going back to boot Ubuntu. No dice. Windows wouldn't boot again. I tried using the restore utility in Windows for boot recovery. Now, when I start the machine, nothing happens. If I hit Esc at bootup, it says to hit Esc again to enter the startup menu. Doing that has no effect. BIOS simply refuses to start, so I can't do any further setup or change options at all. It just sits there. UEFI sure is fun!</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Good news indeed!</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2013 8:23 PM, "Jim Philips" <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com" target="_blank">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Well, I was full of fear and loathing over the UEFI thing, but it went pretty well. Ubuntu wasn't my first choice, but they have rigged it so that Windows 8 sees the Ubuntu install DVD as a UEFI device in recovery options. You boot from that device and install the boot record on the EFI partition and you're home free. It was one of the snoothest installs I've ever had.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Just turn off secure boot. Windows will run without it. It'll stay booted in Linux anyway:-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Or wipe the drive for a bare Linux install and use winders only in a VM.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Dec 14, 2013 11:34 AM, "Jim Philips" <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com" target="_blank">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I have a new HP all-in-one that I bought for the family. But of course I want to install Linux on it. It's running Windows 8.1 and so uses UEFI. I am looking at my options for getting Fedora 20 to install. Most of the posts I have seen say I should just disable secure boot for the Fedora installation. But this leads to a sloppy situation where you have to switch BIOS settings to boot one or the other OS (or so it appears). I could also just install Fedora in Virtual Box, but I see that as a last resort. Does anybody here have experience in overcoming the roadblocks of UEFI? Is one distro easier than another when it comes to dealing with it?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">When I try to boot from the Fedora DVD, I just get a message saying:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">"invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup."</div></div>
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