[YLUG] Windows 8 and Ubuntu dual boot with Secure Boot?

[Martin Rowe]

Hi Mike

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.

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.

If anyone does have a successful installation I'd like to hear about it too.

Regards, Martin


On 4 April 2013 13:43, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I know that there are quite a few of you in the group who use Ubuntu and I
> have a friend who has a new machine that came with Windows 8, and he tried
> to install Ubuntu with dual boot using UEFI with Secure Boot.
>  Unfortunately he failed miserably to get Ubuntu to boot with Secure Boot,
> and ended up having to change the BIOS settings every time he wanted to
> boot the alternative OS - Windows 8 would not boot at all with Secure Boot
> switched off in the BIOS, and Ubuntu would not boot with it switched on.
>
> Does anyone have any prior experience with getting Secure Boot/UEFI for a
> dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu system working properly? Any links to
> guidance or step by step help?
>
> I used to use Fedora until around a year ago, but I got disenchanted with
> some of their philosophy and moved all my machines to arch linux, and now
> have two home-built machines which I single boot arch with UEFI using
> rEFInd and it took me quite a while to understand enough about UEFI to make
> it work at all! However I have no experience with Ubuntu concerning UEFI
> and none either with Windows 8!
>
> I know there are a lot of problems with UEFI in general and different
> motherboards and different brands of machine have UEFI implmented
> differently, and for Secure Boot in particular especially for dual booting
> systems built on such machines.  However although there are a number of
> different ways to approach UEFI boot in linux including rEFInd ( which
> really replaces rEFIt), as well as grub2 and gummiboot my only experience
> is with rEFInd and only in arch linux concerning UEFI. I would like to be
> able to help my friend but I am somewhat stuck in getting information
> without my own Ubuntu system to tinker with.
>
> Any hints and tips appreciated so I can pass them on to my friend.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> mike c
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