Watch Windows 8 boot Kubuntu from UEFI

[SteveRiley]

Watch as I torture myself. Oh, and "foreign" operating systems are now devices, in the ever-understandable language of Redmond.

References:

* Installing Windows 8 followed by Kubuntu on a UEFI machine; adding Windows to GRUB's menu
* Observing Windows acknowledge that Ubuntu is installed on the machine

[vinnywright]

nice work .....so once you have a proper efi install of Kubuntu you can boot it that way?
and can you also start it any other way? like from a uefi boot menu?

VINNY

[tek_heretik]

Watch as I torture myself. Oh, and "foreign" operating systems are now devices, in the ever-understandable language of Redmond.

You never cease to crack me up Steve.

[SteveRiley]

You are a hero!

*blush*

Would this be possible/ available on any version of Win8?

Presumably on any of the x86 versions, as they all support UEFI. Can't say for WinRT (the ARM version), as I don't have a Windows-capable ARM computer to check.

nice work .....so once you have a proper efi install of Kubuntu you can boot it that way? and can you also start it any other way? like from a uefi boot menu?

Yep. That "Advanced Startup | Devices" menu is simply displaying every BootNNNN NVRAM variable that would also appear in the computer's built-in UEFI boot manager.

You never cease to crack me up Steve.

I am to please

[SteveRiley]

Lol. Of all times to omit a letter from a word!

I aim to please. Of course, she rather likes that, too.