<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I replaced my wife's failing laptop. It's a Toshiba with Windows 8. The BIOS does not seem to like my Ubuntu and Xubuntu DVDs. It won't boot them. I think it's a new security thing. This can make it hard to set up dual-booting. I want to get in there with Ubuntu, but I'm clueless about how to proceed. Pointers, please? </blockquote><div>Be sure the bios boot order specifies boot from cd/dvd before from internal disk. If that is already the case, then are you sure your DVD's are OK? Have they booted before? If yes, then I can only think that you are the victim of the new secure bios that requires a Microsoft signed booter/OS (something like that). </div></div>