<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rowe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbg400.net@gmail.com" target="_blank">dbg400.net@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Mike</div><div><br></div>I have experience at failing to get it to work! This is with a Dell Inspiron 15R SE with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04. Ubuntu wouldn't see that Windows was already installed, and If I did a side by side install I could only get into Windows by choosing it from the BIOS boot. Once it had booted it wiped the MBR which meant I couldn't get back into Ubuntu. I also tried with 12.10 and that didn't see Windows either. I switched between secure UEFI boot and the legacy option (which was fine for Ubuntu) but it made no difference to either OS recognising the other was installed.<div>
<br></div><div>I decided to leave it until 13.04 is out and give it another go. In the meantime I've put VirtualBox on Windows and installed Ubuntu that way. That has worked out quite well as nearly everything I want to use it for on Linux works fine. The downside is that VirtualBox doesn't yet support USB 3.0, and my laptop only has USB 3.0 ports. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If anyone does have a successful installation I'd like to hear about it too.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, Martin</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>It certainly seems that there is a lot of variation in experience that different people have when starting down the UEFI route - when I began my adventure it was on a machine that was to ultimately replace my main desktop (actually a home build silent pc) but it took me several weeks before I was comfortable with it- and being non-critical to get it working in a hurry I spent a great deal of time on the forums and in fact I was almost at the point of giving up entirely and re-installing based on legacy boot when the author of rEFInd chipped in and offered a lot of very helpful advice on how to set up my system which ultimately got me working. When it works it is fantastic - and on kernel installs nothing manual is needed the way I set my system up - but then it is a single boot system with no secure boot making it a lot simpler than the system I originally asked about on behalf of my friend who is trying to get dual boot with secure boot!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Hopefully over the next few days someone will chip in.....</div><div style><br></div></div>-- <br>mike c
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