<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Scott Linnenbringer <<a href="mailto:s.linnenbringer@gmail.com" target="_blank">s.linnenbringer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Scott Linnenbringer <<a href="mailto:s.linnenbringer@gmail.com">s.linnenbringer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:44 PM, doug <<a href="mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net">dmcgarrett@optonline.net</a>> 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 <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI" target="_blank">http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI</a> and install Ubuntu with secure boot next to the OEM-installed copy of Windows 8 Cheers, Scott </blockquote><div>If he has already activated the installation, he will not be able to activate the second install. He will be s*****d :( </div></div>