Dual boot with Windows 8 on Toshiba failed

[Wes James]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> On 10/10/2013 10:05 AM, Wes James wrote:
> > I had a user ask me to put linux on a laptop,  I put xubuntu 13.04 on,
> > but had to disable uefi to boot in to xubuntu then enable uefi to boot
> > in to win8.  If you just want ubuntu, try disabling uefi in the bios.
> >
> > -wes
>
> /snip/
>
> There must be some way to operate your Win 8 without uefi. I have an
> older machine that has no uefi hardware at all. I have Win 8 installed
> on one partition (only!)--sda1. sda2 is the second primary that has all
> the secondary partitions on it, used for Linuxes. So Win 8 is using
> _only one_ partition and does not, of course, need uefi. I'm sure that
> Microsoft does not want you to know how to disable that uefi stuff,
> but somewhere on the internet is someone who does know. I think you
> should find him. (There may be a patch that you need to apply, but
> that must exist somewhere also.)
>
> Oh, and BTW, I had XP on sda1, and then I installed Windows 8 to sda1
> _after_ Linux--something everybody tells you not to do, but I had Linux
> already.  I had to execute redo mbr from a live Linux CD afterwards, and
> everything works.
>
> Just my 2¢ worth--doug
>

I don't think there is a patch when win8 has already been installed  from
the manufacturer with secure boot on.  You would need to disable secureboot
then reinstall win8 from scratch with secure boot off, then I think
win8/linux would live on same disk without needing to switch firmware
settings.

-wes
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