[ale] Fedora install/ Windows 8/UEFI issues

[Jim Kinney]

Just turn off secure boot. Windows will run without it. It'll stay booted
in Linux anyway:-)

Or wipe the drive for a bare Linux install and use winders only in a VM.
On Dec 14, 2013 11:34 AM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a new HP all-in-one that I bought for the family. But of course I
> want to install Linux on it. It's running Windows 8.1 and so uses UEFI. I
> am looking at my options for getting Fedora 20 to install. Most of the
> posts I have seen say I should just disable secure boot for the Fedora
> installation. But this leads to a sloppy situation where you have to switch
> BIOS settings to boot one or the other OS (or so it appears). I could also
> just install Fedora in Virtual Box, but I see that as a last resort. Does
> anybody here have experience in overcoming the roadblocks of UEFI? Is one
> distro easier than another when it comes to dealing with it?
>
> When I try to boot from the Fedora DVD, I just get a message saying:
>
> "invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup."
>
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