I am using Windows 8.1 with UEFI Boot Mode and secure boot is on. I read somewhere that you should turn off secure boot to install Ubuntu properly. I had installed Ubuntu on my different laptop and it is working fine with Windows 10 along with Ubuntu on UEFI boot and secure boot OFF.Now i want to install Ubuntu on my laptop with windows 8.1 previously installed.So,the question is that,is there any problem to install Ubuntu on it with secure boot ON,or i have to change secure boot to OFF?
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I'm absolutely new to Linux. I would like to know how to install Ubuntu alongside the pre-installed Windows 8+ OS.  Should I do it with Wubi, or through the Live USB/DVD?  What steps do I need to take to correctly install Ubuntu?
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I need to install Ubuntu instead of Windows 7. Can you tell me the steps to do it? I don't want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. Any precautions needed before installing Ubuntu? How do I install Ubuntu 11.10 without losing the current data in my laptop?
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I have a HP laptop with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted. I used to use F9 key to enter boot menu and chose Ubuntu and then GRUB would appear where I would chose Ubuntu again. This was working fine all this while. Either a hardware change or a Windows update has caused the Ubuntu option to go missing from the boot menu itself.  How do I fix this and boot into Ubuntu again?
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Trying to install ubuntu on a laptop. The "bios/uefi" has no uefi boot options &amp; the windows boot manager just kicks in. The only "option" is "boot from hard disk". So we tried to use efibootmgr to put grub to boot first.  When we run an efibootmgr -o xxxx,xxxx,xxxx command it seems like the order gets fixed but on reboot the windows boot manager still has control, then when we re-opened the live usb &amp; checked the boot order it remains unaffected.  What are other ways to change the efi boot order? Maybe by mounting the efi partition (in mnt) and doing what?
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I had windows 10 but during a reset, it died ( I know my bad ). So I am attempting to wipe the drive and install ubuntu from a clean install but whenever I select to install ubuntu it only gives me a black screen. It's in UEFI and secure boot.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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I have a Lenovo Ideapad with pre-installed Windows 8.1 In order to install Ubuntu I disabled secure boot and changed boot mode from UEFI to Legacy. This allowed me to install Ubuntu and the grub loader is also showing an option to either boot into Windows or Ubuntu, but whenever I try booting to Windows it says Cannot load.  This happens because the boot order is set to Legacy mode and Windows 8 will boot only with UEFI. I am unable to access my BIOS from where I can change the boot order. I press F1/F2 on booting but it doesn't load the BIOS, and directly goes to the grub loader screen.  How can I make my Windows 8 run along with Ubuntu?
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Now Windows 8 supports the UEFI bootloader and I have read that its different from the BIOS, but it's unclear to me after many searches on the Google.  Some points in mind are below:-   As we all know, BIOS is an important part of accessing boot options. So UEFI will do that now? How?   How would I know that I'm booting with UEFI not with BIOS?  So what is the real difference in the "boot with BIOS" and "boot with UEFI"?
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I have a PC with an OEM install of Win 8 updated to 8.1.  It has 3 physical hard drives in it.  The drive where Windows is installed has a LOT of partitions on it already.    Can I install Ubuntu on a different physical hard drive than Windows, and be able to dual-boot?  I am able to boot to a live USB of Ubuntu 14.04, so I think I'm about ready to proceed.  But if I can make my installation easier by using a different physical drive, I'd like to do that.
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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 onto my Acer Aspire E15. The PC has a 500 Gigabyte HDD.   During the installation it divided the HDD into separate partitions. However every time I turn on the PC it goes directly into Windows 8.1. It doesn't allow you the opportunity to select which OS you want to use.   Question 1: How do I set the PC so it will allow me to select the OS?  Question 2: And if #1 isn't possible. How to I remove Ubuntu from the PC and recover the partition for Windows
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I'm in the middle of installing 13.10 and the Ubuntu page I was following on how to install from a USB stick says nothing about these two choices (on the Installation type screen):     1) Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security (you will choose a security key in the next step).      2) Use LVM with the new Ubuntu installation (this will set up Logical Volume Management. It allows taking snapshots and easier partition resizing)   I'm a writer using the computer for mostly writing ebooks but I also do all the things most people do: buy stuff online, online banking etc. I want my information to be safe but I don't want to overburden my system with security stuff either. And I've read a lot of the similarly themed questions here on the forum but they've all been about stuff more technical than I'm concerned about.   Can somebody please just tell me in real layman's terms about the implications of these two choices? Thank you.
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My computer is a Sony Vaio Notebook. I used Ubuntu and Win 8 with dualboot but windows somehow managed to remove the menu to choose the OS at startup. I think the BIOS is UEFI. Secure boot was disabled already and Boot Repair somehow fails.  How can I fix this?
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I have created a Live USB for Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.4.4  I have restarted and booted from the USB; tried Ubuntu without installing. Everything works fine there including web browsing, videos, installing new software etc. So I decide to install Ubuntu as dual boot option to Windows 8.  When I tried installing, the options do not show the existing Windows 8 OS. It shows only the option to install Ubuntu as standalone OS. The step by step installation instructions available online mention that it should show option like "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8"  I have a Dell Inspiron 3521 with Windows 8; UEFI boot. I have 3 options for the boot menu: "UEFI Security boot On", "UEFI Security boot Off" and "Legacy boot".   Please advise how I can get to dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu. I know that USB setup is good as I am able to boot and try from it without installing. May be boot settings?  Thanks in Advance! ~KK
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I have a Windows 8 system and was about to install Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot mode, when I heard about Windows 10 releasing. Now that the Windows 10 has rolled out, I would like to know whether doing the same steps as for Windows 8 would install it. I would wait until somebody else has tried it out and posted it on the internet, but I'm somewhat out of time to wait. Will it be risky trying it out so soon, or does anyone know about what would work?
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my laptop has freezed, I restart it with power button but now, at start up, BitLocker said that:     You need to enter your recovery key because Secure Boot has been disabled. Either Secure Boot must be re-enabled, or BitLocker must be suspended for Windows to start normally.   I gone to UEFI settings and define a password to re-enabled Secure Boot but BitLocker when I restart comptuer said that Bios secure parameters has changed... It doesn't solve the problem.  The problem is I don't have my recovery key. I tried to recover my recovery key using Microsoft account but I had to update my phone number and so my security settings are locked for one month. My question is :   Is it possible to boot on Ubuntu USB key or plug HDD to an Ubuntu computer, copy files and decrypt them one by one with my password session ? Is it possible to retrieve my recovery key using Windows command line and session password ? (I can access to Windows recovery menu so I have access to commands line.) Is a program to decrypt completely my hard drive exists ? I will write it on a USB key, start it, enter my session password and it will decrypt all the disk or something like that.   Thanks a lot.
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I have Windows 8 pre-installed, and then I installed GRUB with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not my thing, so now I want to remove it along with GRUB. From what I have learned, with UEFI, GRUB does not overwrite the windows bootloader in the EFI partition and is stored elsewhere. How would I remove GRUB and make my PC use the Windows bootloader instead? It should be noted that I created a separate /boot partition when installing Ubuntu.
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On trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop amd64 to a desktop pc using a ga a75 ud4h motherboard (which is using an AMD 3870k APU with a new 1TB HDD) following the advice in the  and  have now got to grub option screen for EFI install. Booting live dvd in EFI mode gives &quot;Secure Boot is not enabled&quot; just before grub kernel option list shows.  If the option to &quot;Install Ubuntu&quot; or &quot;Try Ubuntu without installing&quot; is selected gives &quot;can not read cd/0&quot; and &quot;the kernel must be loaded first&quot; errors. Using DVD or USB installation media gives same results and there has never been at any point an UEFI entry in bios/firmware settings or boot device list/s. It might be helpful to say that have had an alternative non-linux OS installing EFI mode on this hardware giving a GPT installation automagically using USB installation media when the hdd space was completely unallocated space. The USB device was listed under hard drives in bios/firmware one time boot list and did not have an UEFI entry. i.e. it installed EFI although no EFI or UEFI entry was assigned to the device like what is shown in many tutorials regarding UEFI installs. The only constructive information regarding this question is found at  and  but can not work out the answer. Checking md5sum and sha256 checksums on downloaded .iso and used &quot;Check disk for defects&quot; to check burned .iso when booting DVD in BIOS mode. No errors found. &quot;Check disk for defects&quot; will not run (or any other options) when DVD booted in EFI mode. Due to trying different distributions as well as older and newer flavours of Ubuntu all giving similar results in that no options from grub option screen in EFI mode are bootable (if getting that far) as well as spending time searching Ubuntu Forums have come to conclusion the firmware on this system is hardcoded to handle Microsoft EFI files only. After installing Windows EFI mode here is a  and here is a link to a thread i started at  which may be helpful to others building a dual boot system. Installing BIOS mode and using Boot-Repair to install grub-efi is not a complete solution due to the inability of using installation media EFI mode for recovery and maintenance due to the &quot;you need to load kernel first&quot; and &quot;can not read cd/files&quot; errors as described when trying to boot installation media using EFI. Secure Boot is not an issue. Using msinfo32 from windows confirms Secure Boot is not supported on this hardware. How to edit kernel or load kernel for EFI install? = How to EFI install Ubuntu? PLEASE CONSIDER: This is not a dupe!  The linked question that is indicated to having a working answer does not have a working answer to &quot;###How to edit kernel or load kernel for EFI install? = How to EFI install Ubuntu?&quot; therefor the workaround of installing using BIOS then manually install grub-efi without renaming bootloaders which works to get Ubuntu booting using EFI or using boot-repair to do this (and many unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; if recommended repair is not changed in advanced settings) also works.  This goes some way to confirming hardcoding of firmware is not stopping grub the boot manager seeing the vmlinuz.efi files in /casper on DVD.  I would like an answer to this so would like this question to be reopened.
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I recently purchased an ASUS K55A. Like all Windows 8 machines, it come with a UEFI feature called Secure Boot. This basically makes sure that the laptop won't load anything other than the Windows 8 OEM version that came with it.  However the Asus UEFI allows for me to disable Secure Boot, and therefore I should be able to revert to Windows 7, Linux, etc. (drivers may or may not be supported). When I insert my Linux Mint boot disc and try to boot from it, though, nothing happens. There isn't even a boot priority list in the UEFI settings (I can provide screenshots later). It just says "Windows 8 Bootloader" and also on the other tab it says "WINDOWS 8 BOOT OVERRIDE".  Has anybody purchased a Windows 8 machine and successfully installed Windows 7 or Linux on it?