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UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« on: 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?
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2014, 11:20:42 pm »
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #2 on: 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
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2014, 11:57:57 pm »
I'm pretty sure that will make him unable to boot Windows
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #4 on: 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.
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2014, 06:54:17 am »
Quote from: Matriplex on 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.
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #6 on: 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. 
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Re: UEFI firmware, disabling secure boot, and still no luck.
« Reply #7 on: 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.
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