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

[Dave Morley]

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On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> 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/
>
> 
> 
> 
Did she install 32bit or 64bit Ubuntu,  Secure boot is only available
on 64bit

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