On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:08:42 +0000
Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3 December 2012 15:28, Matti Pulkkinen
<matti.pulkkinen3(a)gmail.com> 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-7...
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