Ubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite

[Liam Proven]

On 14 October 2013 17:07, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> Liam, in another thread you mentioned that you had a Toshiba Satellite Pro.
> Does it have Secure boot and EFI?  I am curious as I just had to return a
> Toshiba Satellite because I could not get Ubuntu to install and run on it.

No, I'm afraid not. It's a P300-1AY - a circa 2008 Core 2 Duo machine
with a conventional BIOS.

AIUI, SecureBoot is only found in association with UEFI, on x86-64
PCs, and it's a requirement for MS to confer the precious "Compatible
with Windows 8" status. It should be possible to disable it in the
firmware setup, though, which is sadly not possible with ARM hardware.

Also, and again AIUI, only 64-bit Linux can cope with it. 32-bit
versions will not install (possibly not even boot).

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