Need help: How do I boot Acer Aspire CX-603 off DVD and NOT Win 8.1 Hard Disk?
Dear Linux users, I recently bought, from Harvey Norman, for around $390, an Acer Aspire XC-603 desktop computer. It was pre-installed with "Windows 8.1 with Bing". I was going to repartition the hard disk drive in order to make the computer a dual boot Linux/Windows computer. To do this, of course, I needed to boot off the Linux DVD (or Gparted). However, I was not able to force the computer to boot off the DVD drive. In the past it was possible to do this by pressing either Esc key or the F2 key during the boot-up process. However, nothing I did during the boot-up of this computer prevented the computer from booting Windows 8.1 off the hard drive. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to boot off the DVD and, if so, how to do it? Thanks in anticipation, James Sinnamon
2014-12-11 12:06 GMT+01:00 James Sinnamon <james.sinnamon@gmail.com>:
I recently bought, from Harvey Norman, for around $390, an Acer Aspire XC-603 desktop computer. It was pre-installed with "Windows 8.1 with Bing".
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to boot off the DVD and, if so, how to do it?
As far as I know it is probably due to UEFU secure boot. You should go into the UEFI configuration tool (by pressing some key during the boot-up), and disable the secure boot feature. ATTENTION: keep in mind that this operation invalidates the current installation of Windows 8, so if you want to keep it, you have to reinstall it from scratch! Basically, to have dual boot machine, the procedure should be: 1. disable secure boot 2. re-install windows 3. install your linux distribution -- Mick
On 11/12/14 22:15, Michele Bert wrote:
As far as I know it is probably due to UEFI secure boot.
Disabling Secure Boot is a legitimate troubleshooting step, although in theory should be unnecessary. All major Linux distros have had Microsoft sign their bootloaders, meaning they will boot out-of-the-box with UEFI Secure Boot enabled.
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As far as I know it is probably due to UEFI secure boot. > > Disabling Secure Boot is a legitimate troubleshooting step, although in theory should be unnecessary. > > All major Linux distros have had Microsoft sign their bootloaders, > meaning they will boot out-of-the-box with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. [...]
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trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) wrote:
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Content preview: Jeremy Visser writes: > On 11/12/14 22:15, Michele Bert wrote: >> As far as I know it is probably due to UEFI secure boot. > > Disabling Secure Boot is a legitimate troubleshooting step, although in theory should be unnecessary. > > All major Linux distros have had Microsoft sign their bootloaders, > meaning they will boot out-of-the-box with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. [...]
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Dear Linux users, On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:06 PM, James Sinnamon <james.sinnamon@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Linux users,
I recently bought, from Harvey Norman, for around $390, an Acer Aspire XC-603 desktop computer. It was pre-installed with "Windows 8.1 with Bing".
I was going to repartition the hard disk drive in order to make the computer a dual boot Linux/Windows computer.
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I have since learned that pressing the delete key allows you to change the boot-up sequence.
Thanks,
James
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