On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:08:42 +0000 Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3 December 2012 15:28, Matti Pulkkinen > <matti.pulkkinen3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3.12.2012 17:17, Alexander Volovics wrote: > >> > >> b) If you disable secure boot there is no problem except that > >> 'os-prober' does not work and I do not know if Win 8 will > >> except this without fiddling (or in the worst case > >> reinstall) > > > > I'm sorry, I realise that this is completely off-topic, but because > > I happen to be in the market for a laptop, I was just wondering, > > how does one actually disable secure boot? Is there a menu entry in > > the BIOS for it, or is it more complicated than that? > > > > Don't think it's that off-topic, since a lot of us may have to deal > with it eventually to get Fedora working. > > FWIW, on a BIOS / NON-UEFI system Win8 + F16 are working okay (Win8 > installed after Fedora and then reinstalled grub2). You also get to > decide which is worse: Metro or Gnome shell. (Metro in my opinion, and > the reasons for that probably are completely off-topic.) > ZDNet's UK Linux guy, J.A. Watson recently wrote about getting Fedora (and other Linuxes) running on a spanking new HP laptop. Short answer: It worked. Take a look here: http://www.zdnet.com/hp-pavilion-dm1-4310e-swapping-windows-8-for-linux-7000008029/ He has new post up (at least on the ZDNet UK site) about replacing the hard drive with an SSD type. Even more joy. -- cmg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
