Can xubuntu dual-boot with Windows 8?

[Scott Linnenbringer]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Scott Linnenbringer
<s.linnenbringer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"

So to clarify for you, Kevin, you can do two things

If you have the Windows 8 installation media, you can disable "Secure
Boot" and switch "UEFI" to "CSM" under the *Boot menu* (not advanced
menu as I previously said, just checked was wrong) in your BIOS
configuration (F12 in Toshiba) and then reinstall Windows and install
Ubuntu/Xubuntu next to it normally from the discs you have

OR - you can follow the directions on
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI  and install Ubuntu with secure
boot next to the OEM-installed copy of Windows 8

Cheers, Scott