Chris,
I wish all the bug reports that land on my desk were as well-written and complete as this one. Kudos. Does that mean that the era of easily dual-booting Windows machines is over? That sucks, I did this for many, many friends. If I read you correctly, installing a dual boot on a Windows 8 system requires quite some efforts. In the "Post-installation issue" section, you talk about modifying /etc/grub.d/40_custom and finding the partitions' UUIDs. Is there a good doc you'd recommend for this procedure? --Fred On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:49:50 -0500 "Chris Knadle - [email protected]" wrote: > I just did a Linux install on Saturday that was an interesting effort. > > If you're familiar with getting into the BIOS on most computers, you > probably figure that the keypress on the keyboard to do this is > either DEL, F1, or F2. Not on this laptop, though. On this laptop > it's a secret button on the /side/ of the laptop, which requires a > small object like a pen to press it -- and this button's existence or > how to get into the BIOS isn't even mentioned in any of the > documentation that comes with it. And it's /required/ to get into > the UEFI BIOS in order to turn SecureBoot off in order to install > Linux. After we did, post-install Windows 8 refused to boot becuse > the MBR was modified. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694388 > > Anyone else run into this? > --Fred Mora _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel Jan 9 - High Performance Computing Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi
