Can xubuntu dual-boot with Windows 8?

[JD]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Scott Linnenbringer <
s.linnenbringer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
If he has already activated the installation, he will not be able to
activate
the second install. He will be s*****d :(
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