The reason I suggest the grml image, is it usually talks for me and you can install Debian with it. It is a bit of a manual procedure, but it is not all that bad. If you decide to dual boot, install your windows 8 first, then do your Linux install... I have seen the windows 8 installer trash a linux install... I am not sure if it was my fault or not, but I know Linux will not trash windows 8. Also, you can setup your grub to boot either OS. On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Kelly Prescott wrote: > Ok, here goes... > I use UEFI systems and have no problems with my installers. > Heres is what I would like for you to try to elimnate some problems: > download the grml 64-bit image from http://grml.org > dd it to a USB drive. > go into the setup of your system and disable boot signature checking. > try to boot the USB drive and see if > 1: you hear the 3 tone beep at boot and then 2 if you hear the musical notes > after the system boots. > if you hear the musical notes, press 'q' and then > type modprobe speakup_soft && espeakup > then see if you get speech. > Let me know how those steps go... > You can email me directly and I could even do a call or chat with you if > necessary. > -- Kelly Prescott > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Marcel Oats wrote: > >> Hi, the usual sorry if it's been posted before and all that, I have >> browsed >> the archives and haven't really found anything, or maybe haven't been >> looking in >> the right place. >> I have Gigabyte's Z87X-UD5H board in a new system, and want to have linux >> on >> it as well as Win8.1. This is the first board we have come across which >> does not feature a legacy boot option; i.e. it only supports efi boot >> partitions, though it will boot to an mbr partition after a lengthy pause. >> I came across this situation before when booting the cd, but we were able >> to >> boot the disk in legacy mode and give it the S parameter to start speakup >> and install normally on another machine. >> Here I cannot, though I can connect a braille display and use that during >> the install. When typing s followed by ENTER, the braille is running the >> text installer but there is no speech. >> I understand the EFI boot loader is different and so forth, but am >> wondering >> if something is not being passed correctly? >> It's just the usual Realtec soundcard and so forth, which seems to be >> supported no problem on other machines, but USB audio doesn't work here >> either, and I remember reading a year or so ago that this part was broken >> in >> uefi mode; is this correct? >> Interestingly (and I know this doesn't work but actually wonder why) if we >> make a bootable USB with this netinst ISO, the machine boots from that, we >> get the beep, but there is no speech. The interesting thing, is that if >> we >> boot it on another machine which comes up talking when I boot the cd on >> it, >> the USB version of the same installer does not speak. It works, but no >> speech. >> I'm alright with braille during the install if I have to be, but when >> completed it doesn't speak when the new system is booted, so what is the >> best way of getting speakup running on the system so as I can access the >> CLI? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> Marcel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
