On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Hi,
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach)
just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to
install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations
and warnings about this. She now has no Windows 8 and no Ubuntu, just a
GRUB screen telling her that Ubuntu can't boot because "Secure Boot" in
the UEFI won't let it. It would be interesting to know whether the
installation direct from the website would have worked if she had
switched off "Secure Boot" first, as I told her she had to do. The
apparent consensus is that it wouldn't: that only the USB stick method
will work. There's no way into the UEFI from where she is, is there?
Before anyone says, "Can't she get into it by pressing F2 during
start-up?", the answer is no:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-the-bios-on-a-windows-8-computer/
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