UEFI Notebook

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Sun May 5 17:54:16 UTC 2013


On 05/05/2013 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 05.05.2013, Martín Marqués wrote:
>
>> I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up
>> was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is
>> what we're going to have to deal with from now on).
>> What precautions should I take with UEFI? Disable the Secure Boot?
> AFAIK, every machine should have an option to turn off "secure
> boot". This is what I would have done..
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember seeing that if you
turn off secure boot, you won't be able to boot the Windows 8 os.

Assuming I am right, how would you set up the system so you can boot
either Linux or Win 8 without resetting BIOS configuration each time?
Or can you?

--doug


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