On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Julien Goodwin wrote:
On 12/02/13 15:46, Neale Banks wrote:
What's the current state of dual booting (particularly Debian (Wheezy) and Win8) on UEFI ("Secure" boot) PCs?
So two major points:
1. Just turn off secure boot, it's such a minimal benefit that turning it off isn't a real security loss.
2. Why are you deal booting? These days choosing a primary OS and just running the other in a VM using something like VMware's "unity" mode that largely merges the OS is a really nice way to do things.
Good points. This system isn't for me. Otherwise I'd just disable secure boot (and re-enable it in the (hopefully rare) occasion of needing it to boot 'doze8). Re the VM option, the "primary OS" is not yet decided - that will come from experience. Hopefully Linux will be used most :-) Hmmm... should I perhaps be thinking more like keeping UEFI enabled (as distinct from "Legacy BIOS") but with "Secure boot" disabled? In particular is that likely to enable us to still boot the (shrunken) 'doze-8 partition and install a new (bootable) Linux partition? Thanks, Neale.