Dual boot with Windows 8 on Toshiba failed

[Pastor JW]

On 10/10/2013 08:01 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 09:23 AM, Wes James wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 October 2013 15:05, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I had a user ask me to put linux on a laptop,  I put xubuntu 13.04 on,
>>> but
>>>> had to disable uefi to boot in to xubuntu then enable uefi to boot
>>>> in to
>>>> win8.  If you just want ubuntu, try disabling uefi in the bios.
>>>
>>> Do you mean, disable and re-enable SecureBoot?
>>>
>>> I do not want to quibble but I am concerned about your use of words.
>>>
>>> UEFI is a kind of firmware. It replaces a BIOS. You can't disable it -
>>> it is built into the computer. And you can't go into the BIOS on a
>>> computer with UEFI - it has no BIOS, it has UEFI instead.
>>>
>>
>> You are right.   I think it was secureboot.  This laptop had several
>> settings and I had to fiddle around with them.  One was to boot in BIOS
>> mode - this must be some kind of bios emulation if uefi is the
>> standard on
>> the laptops that have uefi  I think I left the uefi on, but had to toggle
>> the secureboot.
>>
>> -wes
>>
>>
>>
>
> I disabled secure boot before installing 13.10 for the first time.

It is getting to the point where anything with windoze installed on it 
makes the computer totally worthless. On a windoze 8 machine I pulled 
its hardrive, installed a new one and tried to install Kubuntu on it. 
Didn't work either. I think we need a virus extractor which is able to 
clean the virus completely off the machine first and install Ubuntu on 
it in its place.

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