I picked up an asus laptop , and I am interested in dual-booting linux with windows 8 as well. I was thinking of using Ubuntu, either 12.04 or 13.04 ... it is a 64-bit capable laptop, but it doesn't advertise that much. I will bcc some friends in case they have some advice as well, but basically I would like to have a minimally tampered with windows 8, and to be able to do most of my work on linux; I'm wondering if every time windows 8 would update, it might mess up my linux install. When I say minimally tampered windows 8, I mean I know it is horribly spying and so on, but I don't want to disable all those features and then have lots of applications, software, and services not work, although I would like to minimize spying or interfering with my work (which sometimes is in the sphere of activism). Hopefully there is a happy balance I can reach. I can start a new thread if that is best, but this thread sounded pretty similar. On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Peter Rofner <profner [ at ] richmondnursery [ dot ] com>wrote: > If I recall correctly, the USB stick needs to have an EFI boot kernel or > else it can't boot. I used the System Rescue CD image on a USB stick to > boot EFI and install Gentoo on an Lenovo Helix and a Lenovo server and > it recognized the stick automatically in EFI mode. Either that or change > the BIOS back to MBR mode to boot a traditional non-EFI stick. > > It takes more fiddling to get EFI to boot, but it is pretty slick once > it works. REFInd works good for dual-booting Windows and Linux via EFI. > > Peter > > On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 10:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > > > > > Most ASUS laptops give boot choice if you hit ESC while splash is > showing. At > > > least all my 5 do. > > > > but all that does is dump me into the BIOS, and let me work my way > > to the boot menu, where i can apparently "Create" a new boot entry, > > but i have no idea what to add there -- the only example i see is this > > long, incomprehensible string that looks like a device identifier, and > > i don't know what to do from there. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- *Michael Goguen* My main email: MIchael [ dot ] Goguen [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelGoguen activist blog: http://inner5pac3.blogspot.ca youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MIchaelGoguen personal blog: http://michaelgoguen.blogspot.ca rpg blog: http://mems-memory.blogspot.ca my online resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tuZqhImog5O-tWxzfBPXo7B1ikDSInWOW_6Pqj4d6Ls/edit my linkedin profile: http://lnkd.in/TpVyqP *my personal cel*: 613-808-5840 *lanark ev house number:* 613-259-5026 * ... and this is a little bit about where I live* Michael Goguen 2799 McDonald's Corners Rd. Lanark, Ontario K0G 1K0 Intro: Sustainability Project - 7th Generation Initiative http://www.SustainWellBeing.net "The Challenge and the Goal" : http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/challenge_and_goal.html This explains the problem the project addresses and the direction in which we seek solutions. What is happening with the Eco-Village project: ============== For your information about the project: The basic inspiration - "Where Will the Grandchildren Live; An Alternative View of Retirement": http://www.superaje.com/~sustain5/letter.html An overview of building objectives: http://www.SustainWellBeing.net/ecovillage.html And the Project site is: http://ecolanark.wordpress.com/ ===============