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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 06/01/2013 17:03, Barry Drake wrote:
> My gut feeling is that creating partitions etc is still not going to 
> have any effect.  My understanding of UEFI is that the BIOS monitors 
> anything that is trying to install and rejects all bootable files 
> unless they are signed in a way that allows booting privilege. This 
> means that the missing files you spoke of will be the Linux kernel 
> itself.  I'm talking off the top of my head here, so forgive me if 
> this is not the right information.  I'd certainly go back and return 
> the item - probably saying that you find Windows 8 'unuseable!  I 
> wouldn't put up with it myself!

Well, I'll go back and talk to them. I won't formally return the thing. 
Right now, it's all I have that works. But I've ordered another laptop 
with Ubuntu pre-installed, from the Linux Emporium, which I should get 
within a week or so, unless my bank gets freaky at my buying two laptops 
within a week. I really need Ubuntu because all my personal files, 
including over 2,000 LPs, are on my external hard drive, using an 
Ubuntu-friendly file system which Windows cannot see at all.