[ale] Fedora install/ Windows 8/UEFI issues

[Jim Philips]

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!


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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