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I found a distro that installs and runs in UEFI mode, Debian Jessie. Its a testing version but I haven't found any serious bugs as of yet. I just had to add GRUB to the windows boot partition. On start up GRUB launches and offers both Windows and Debian. With the Debian Wheezy, I had to...

Ah, OK. No I'm sure its in UEFI mode. I've learned quite a bit about this topic over the past week. Its been a literal crash course.

Am I wrong to assume that Windows 8 runs in UEFI?

That was my logic. Thanks for responding. You on any Linux forums? Check out linuxquestions.org, I'm usually in the newbie forum, same user name.

From what I'm reading it not a one time problem. Debian can only be installed and booted from a BIOS mobo, my machine has a UEFI mobo, grub, at least Wheezy grub, has a serious conflict with UEFI systems. Everything I'm reading is that a major improvement to Wheezy was the introduction of a...

[SOLVED] Ran my windows recovery disk and found that during my Linux install I had inadvertently reformatted the windows boot partition. The recovery disk I have fixed the issue and now I'm back in business! Now...back to my Linux install...attempt 6. What can I say, I'm a glutton for...

Thanks for the reply. I've been doing some research since last night and discovered that trying to install certain Linux distros (like Debian Wheezy as I am) on machines with MOBOs configured in UEFI as opposed to BIOS is...difficult to say the least. The Linux distro need to install and boot...

Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking: Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] ============================= Boot Info Summary...