Can xubuntu dual-boot with Windows 8?

[Scott Linnenbringer]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:44 PM, doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 10:33 PM, Scott Linnenbringer wrote:
>
>> I had a copy of Win7 around so I just downgraded on my Toshiba z930.
>> You can go into the BIOS (F12 on Toshiba), turn off "Secure Boot"
>> under the Security menu and switch Boot Mode from "UEFI" to "CSM" in
>> the advanced menu, and voila you have the normal boot. But no Win 8
>> support.
>>
> Not sure what you mean by "no Win 8 support."  Do you mean you
> cannot a) leave Win 8 on the machine and dual boot it, or b) you cannot
> install Win 8 unless you have UEFI--I don't think that can be true, or
> no machine older than a few months would be able to use it. Or do
> you mean c) that MS will not send security updates to W8 unless it
> is used on a UEFI machine?  I doubt that also. Be explain.

Ah sorry I wasn't clear

You can install Win 8 without secure boot, but on new computers the
manufacturers set it up with secure boot enabled (the efi partition et
al) and - as far as I know (and I may be very very wrong) you have to
reinstall Windows 8 completely after you disable secure boot/UEFI in
the BIOS. That's difficult because Toshiba doesn't ship the Win8 media
with their laptops usually (and especially for me since I bought it
with FreeDOS in Kuala Lumpur :)

I should have said "no OEM-installed Win 8 support"