[ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 06/01/2013 17:02, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/01/13 14:28, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Well, I burned it, stuck it in, and tried to boot from it at 
>> start-up, but I ended up at the same place: "unable to load because 
>> of files missing or corrupted," or something identical in essence. So 
>> I guess I'm stuck in the cage of Windows 8 for the moment.
>>
> Have you trawled through the BIOS setup settings?  There may be an 
> option to override the UEFI.  The system will complain that this is 
> 'dangerous' but it isn't!
>
> Regards,        Barry.
>
Yup, I think so, I mean I've been into them a dozen times and I haven't 
seen anything that looks as helpful as that. When I started trying to do 
this, I found a chat forum where someone explained just how difficult it 
really is, though I can't find it again now. Probably if I followed his 
exact instructions, which involve creating partitions (including a swap 
partition specifically for Ubuntu), and, I think, defining start points 
as GUIDs or whatever, I could do it.