[ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

[Rowan Berkeley]

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/