The Linux Foundation has offered a small pre-bootloader as a way around the UEFI problem in Win8 UEFI secured machines. This requires a digital key from MS so that the pre-bootloader can be signed. Guess what? They are still waiting for MS to give them one. Anyone surprised?
FWIW, a couple of recent laptops that I have purchased have a way to disable the secure boot provision, and revert to 'legacy' BIOS. Both my year old Dell M6600 (Win7), and now this newest Asus X202E (Win8) allow the user to disable the UEFI provisions and load Linux.
As long as the BIOS makers allow the disabling of UEFI, we are fine. I did find that trying to dual boot with Win8 is complicated. However, if one replaces and/or reformats the drive, the issues disappear.
What are your experiences dealing with Win8 machines?
Frank.
FWIW, a couple of recent laptops that I have purchased have a way to disable the secure boot provision, and revert to 'legacy' BIOS. Both my year old Dell M6600 (Win7), and now this newest Asus X202E (Win8) allow the user to disable the UEFI provisions and load Linux.
As long as the BIOS makers allow the disabling of UEFI, we are fine. I did find that trying to dual boot with Win8 is complicated. However, if one replaces and/or reformats the drive, the issues disappear.
What are your experiences dealing with Win8 machines?
Frank.
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