Dual boot with Windows 8 on Toshiba failed

[Liam Proven]

On 10 October 2013 15:23, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are right.   I think it was secureboot.  This laptop had several
> settings and I had to fiddle around with them.  One was to boot in BIOS mode
> - this must be some kind of bios emulation if uefi is the standard on the
> laptops that have uefi  I think I left the uefi on, but had to toggle the
> secureboot.


Aha, that'll be it.

Except for non-PC-compatible things like Itanium machines and
Chromebooks, all PCs have BIOS emulation in UEFI so that they can boot
DOS and older versions of Windows. I did not think you could turn that
off.

But almost everyone makes it possible to turn off SecureBoot, or else
your buyers cannot change from Windows 8 to anything else - which
would be very unpopular.


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