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General Tech => Operating System => : le0nid4s February 10, 2014, 10:33:34 PM

: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: le0nid4s February 10, 2014, 10:33:34 PM

Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to make Fedora my new Operating system on my Windows 8 HP Pavilion laptop.
Sadly the new Windows 8 has replaced the classic BIOS boot up screen with a new UEFI secure boot, which is supposed to prevent Windows from accidently booting malicious viruses. But this supposedly secure feature is making it a pain for Linux users to install Linux onto a windows 8 laptop.
Having installed Linux in the past, I was planning on the process being as simple as downloading fedora onto my computer, burning it to a disk, restarting my computer, and letting my computer do the work from there.
Instead some 12 hours later, The problem and after disabling the secure boot feature, I am still unable to boot Linux on to my computer.
Have any of you guys experienced this issue, and if so does anyone know how to fix it?

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: proxx February 10, 2014, 11:20:42 PM

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Apple_Macs
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
Have a read.

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: d4rkcat February 10, 2014, 11:38:28 PM

I have the same laptop, you have to go into the BIOS and disable UEFI and enable "legacy boot"

Should work

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: Matriplex February 10, 2014, 11:57:57 PM

I'm pretty sure that will make him unable to boot Windows

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: d4rkcat February 11, 2014, 12:03:08 AM

From the question I didn't see that he wanted to boot windows.
As far as i know, microshits new system makes it impossible to boot both.

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: proxx February 11, 2014, 06:54:17 AM

: Matriplex  February 10, 2014, 11:57:57 PM

I'm pretty sure that will make him unable to boot Windows

Not perse, windows can be loaded from grub/sys.

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: le0nid4s February 11, 2014, 04:14:58 PM

Sorry for not making this clear earlier. I want microsoft off my computer. And I tried the legacy enabled boot disabled thing on the bios screen as well as rearranging to boot order of things so that a cd would take first priority. And I'm still without luck.
It could be that I'm screwing up during the process, but after having done it a couple of times, I don't know where my error would be occurring. 

: Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
: le0nid4s February 11, 2014, 10:18:56 PM

I was finally able to resolve the issue. And have now ridded myself of windows. The advice from proxx articles were very helpful.
Thanks for all the help everyone.