On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Sam Varghese wrote:
No. A Linux distro that can boot on a PC/laptop that has secure boot enabled would necessarily have obtained a key from Microsoft. That would enable it to boot. Note that I said "you cannot install..." You can very definitely boot Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit on a PC/laptop on which secure boot is enabled.
Thanks for clarifying. I really confused "cannot install" with "cannot boot".
I suspect that the inability of Ubuntu to recognise the single hard drive as having an operating system loaded (see the screenshot in my article) is due to the new filesystem which is implemented in some versions of Windows 8. It's called REFS. Ubunu (and other distros) can recognise NTFS.
AFAIK ReFS is only available for Windows Server 2012, as http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848060%28v=vs.85%2... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2012#ReFS suggest. It is also not mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 I wonder whether you can boot from CD and mount it under Linux..
BTW: Can you still boot the Windows 8 installed with secure boot?
OTOH> If you're asking whether I can boot Win 8 after installing Ubuntu on a second hard drive, the answer is yes. It boot by default. To get into Ubuntu you have to jump through a few hoops, all of which I have described in the article.
That was the question I had in mind. Anyway, at the end it may even weaken the Intel/Microsoft alliance further, and for Linux enthusiasts one more reason to avoid the Microsoft tax;-) Thanks for your article and answers Peter