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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 06/01/2013 19:46, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 06/01/13 19:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> You mean, turn it into a 'naked computer', without any resident 
>> operating system at all. But the BIOS firmware is designed by 
>> Microsoft to prevent undesired operating system software from being 
>> loaded, and that would still be there, in ROM.
>
> Correct.  And that means that the only OS that you can lad would be 
> Windows 8.
>
> Regards,        Barry.
>
Oh, well. It will still be good as a backup machine, I suppose. And 
maybe someone will find a way to outwit the firmware. I assume the 
people who have manually resized the partitions and created new ones for 
Ubuntu and its swap space, have achieved this. Their idea would be to 
fool the firmware into loading Ubuntu without realising what it was. 
Anyway, I'm going to pack it in for the night; I seem to have been 
wrestling with it practically non-stop for 30 hours or so. Thanks for 
all the suggestions. Doubtless this will be a useful warning for others 
who might assume they could convert new Windows machines to Ubuntu in a 
straightforward way.