Ralph Bromley
Fantastic Member
Okay now I have an issue with windows, namely secureboot and UEFI.
This is not for my computer but for my fathers machine.
As an early birthday present I got my father a HP Pavilion laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8.1 but he didnt like it and wanted a dual boot.
So I gave him Ubuntu 13.10 as it has UEFI support and everything was fine until we updated to Ubuntu 14.04.
Sadly it did not load windows via grub and windows would fail to boot.
However after repairing the windows boot manager I knew I had to reinstall linux which would normally be fine but now windows and windows alone now boots, no grub, no nothing.
I heard recently of this story:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wind...RUB2-and-Set-UEFI-to-Secure-Boot-434009.shtml
However I checked everything and windows seems to be the cause of my woes.
As does UEFI
Now we would like to keep windows on this machine however I am thinking of removing the /efi partition
Will windows 8 still work if I did this?
Or am I trapped in windows 8 hell?
I sure hope not
This is not for my computer but for my fathers machine.
As an early birthday present I got my father a HP Pavilion laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8.1 but he didnt like it and wanted a dual boot.
So I gave him Ubuntu 13.10 as it has UEFI support and everything was fine until we updated to Ubuntu 14.04.
Sadly it did not load windows via grub and windows would fail to boot.
However after repairing the windows boot manager I knew I had to reinstall linux which would normally be fine but now windows and windows alone now boots, no grub, no nothing.
I heard recently of this story:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wind...RUB2-and-Set-UEFI-to-Secure-Boot-434009.shtml
However I checked everything and windows seems to be the cause of my woes.
As does UEFI
Now we would like to keep windows on this machine however I am thinking of removing the /efi partition
Will windows 8 still work if I did this?
Or am I trapped in windows 8 hell?
I sure hope not