[ale] Fedora install/ Windows 8/UEFI issues

[Jim Philips]

Follow-up: I had to send the computer back to HP and they replaced the
motherboard. I'm not totally convinced that the back and forth with GRUB
and UEFI didn't cause that. At any rate, the computer works again. I've
disabled secure boot and I'll never re-enable it.


On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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