On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:18:13PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Sam Varghese (sam@gnubies.com):
From my personal experience, you can only have Windows 8 and Ubuntu on the same machine on separate drives [2]. This install was done in the bog standard way.
Sam, here's one guy who did a relatively straightforward installation on a _single_ drive (starting with an empty hard drive) of MS-Windows 8 into its own partition, then Linux (Ubuntu 12.10 - no accounting for taste) into _its_ own partitions, and then letting MS-Windows handle the early stages of booting, chain-booting to GRUB in /dev/sda3 when booting Linux, with MS-Windows getting help from a proprietary booting-management program for MS-Windows called EasyBCD:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/05/dual-boot-windows-8-and-ubuntu-12-10-on...
Seems a shame to feel obliged to surrender control over booting to Microsoft. I'm not sure that part's obligatory.
I would actually think it's a whole lot smarter to install Linux as the primary OS with custody of the entire drive and then install MS-Windows 8 inside a virtual machine (VirtualBox, VMware, whatever). http://www.labnol.org/software/install-windows-8-as-virtual-machine/20919/
Rick, if you read this guy's article carefully you'll notice that he makes mention that his installation did not involve secure boot. To quote "Note that this article does not address dual-booting between Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 on a computer preloaded with Windows 8. Such computers tend to have additional partitions for Windows that you will not create on your own. Not to mention the problem associated with Restricted Boot (Secure Boot)." As I've mentioned in my piece [1] if a PC/laptop has a motherboard with UEFI, that does _not_ automatically mean that secure boot is enabled. If secure boot is disabled, you can dual-boot what you like. Sam --- (Sam Varghese)