Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > On 13/03/2015, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > Quoting Gajadur Dwijesh (dwije...@gmail.com): > >> Hi. > >> I got the same problem.. > >> I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlOd-a2wG0 > >> and it worked..i could dual boot windows 8.1 with Debian on UEFI mode > > > > Interesting. I played this through and at 506 seconds, I saw my first > > EFI screen. Am I right in thinking that's as "high" up the machine > > configuration that we saw? > > > > In other words, was that screen the equivalent of what I first see > > when I press F2 on booting, or was it just the equivalent of what I > > see if I then press the arrow keys to get to the Boot Order or Boot > > Device Menu screen. > > > > Understandably, my wife, who owns the only modern machine in this > > household, running W8.1, won't let me near her "BIOS" (what do you > > call it now?) configuration. > > > > I believe (and, I stand to be corrected) that the configuration part, > is the Setup Utility, and that the BIOS as it was (and, can still > be), and, its superseder, UEFI (that superseded EFI), is invoked by > the Setup Utility. > > When I press <F2>, it enters Setup Mode, which (on a newfangled UEFI > system) allows the system administrator (a user should definitely not > be fiddling about in this area :) ) to select, amongst other options, > either UEFI or "Legacy" BIOS, for booting.
Yes, this was my point. Gajadur Dwijesh said this video would fix your problem but I couldn't see anything on the top-most screen (at 506s) about Secure Boot. Everything was EFI this and EFI that, and just worked. So what good is that to you... I don't know what brand you have, but I'm hoping it's not one where they screwed things up, as mentioned on that wiki page. It's something that's put me off buying a new laptop to replace this old thing. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150313034419.gb22...@alum.home
