Re: Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot

2013-12-09 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > > But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running > Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot > nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm that > I'll be able to do something like that

Re: Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot

2013-12-09 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/9/2013 9:02 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > Hi, > > But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running > Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot > nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm

Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot

2013-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
Hi, I'll be buying a new desktop PC in the next week or so. It'll probably be a DELL XPS 8700. I expect it'll arrive at about the same time as Fedora 20. My usual approach would be to use PartitionMagic to shrink the Windows installation and install Fedora alongside it so I can dual-boot. But it