dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

Alexander Volovics a.volovic at upcmail.nl
Mon Dec 3 15:36:43 UTC 2012


On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 05:28:24PM +0200, Matti Pulkkinen wrote:

> On 3.12.2012 17:17, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> >    b) If you disable secure boot there is no problem except that
> >       'os-prober' does not work and I do not know if Win 8 will
> >       except this without fiddling (or in the worst case reinstall)

> I'm sorry, I realise that this is completely off-topic, but because
> I happen to be in the market for a laptop, I was just wondering, how
> does one actually disable secure boot? Is there a menu entry in the
> BIOS for it, or is it more complicated than that?

There should be an entry in the UEFI setup to do this if everybody
behaves conform specification.
(I only have experience with Dell laptops, no problem there).

Alexander




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