[PLUG] how to dual boot Windows 7 with kubuntu on new computer with UEFI

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Mon May 27 15:10:13 UTC 2013


Russell
Oops, stupid Blackberry. Got my thread headers confused. Comment still
stands though. You still have a BIOS in front of EFI. You may have the
BIOS setup software on a hidden partition of the original harddrive. I
hate when they do that!

-Ed



On 5/27/13, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find that hard to believe. Every computer mother board has some sort
> of BIOS, EFI or not. Otherwise it can't load the bootloader off the
> hard drive or report what hardware it has to the OS, not to mention
> operate all the hardware long before the OS has loaded any drivers.
> One of the links I provided was the BIOS settings for the computer
> model you provided. You may only have a fraction of a second to mash
> "F10" "F2" "DEL" or whatever it was as the computer powers up.
>
> -Ed
>
>
>
> On 5/26/13, Russell Johnson <russ at dimstar.net> wrote:
>>
>> On May 26, 2013, at 3:17 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Typically, there is a BIOS setting to turn off UEFI:
>>
>> If there are BIOS settings at all. My computer does not have BIOS, only
>> EFI.
>>
>>
>> Russell Johnson
>> russ at dimstar.net
>>
>>
>>
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