[ale] Fedora install/ Windows 8/UEFI issues

[Jim Kinney]

Good news indeed!
On Dec 14, 2013 8:23 PM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just turn off secure boot. Windows will run without it. It'll stay booted
>> in Linux anyway:-)
>>
>> Or wipe the drive for a bare Linux install and use winders only in a VM.
>> On Dec 14, 2013 11:34 AM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> When I try to boot from the Fedora DVD, I just get a message saying:
>>>
>>> "invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup."
>>>
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