UEFI Notebook

[Len Philpot]

Windows 8 will definitely boot with Secure Boot disabled. I had mine set that
way for a while as I worked things out and it continued to boot.

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On 05/05/2013 at 12:54 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>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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