[ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 06/01/2013 19:26, Bill Baker wrote:
> Rowan, at this point I would - *if my machine* - see if I could boot a 
> gparted live disk or similar & trash the disk. If you have a machine 
> that should "play" [perhaps having backed up the w* elsewhere if 
> really wanted and external disk available] but doesn't "play": remove 
> the main offender and try your options from there. I speak without 
> having experience of your particular problem - but I speak from 
> instinct - so treat this advice as an option but please seek 
> confirmation from others. 
You mean, turn it into a 'naked computer', without any resident 
operating system at all. But the BIOS firmware is designed by Microsoft 
to prevent undesired operating system software from being loaded, and 
that would still be there, in ROM.