Re: Re: Building computer
On 13Sep25:0800+0530, Balamurugan wrote:
> Recently one of my friend's brother bought a Lenova
> laptop. My friend asked me to install Ubuntu in that
> laptop but that machine was not detecting Ubuntu
> and directly booting into Windows 8. Then after bit
> of struggle, we went into the bios and changed the
> boot mode from 'UEFI' mode to 'Legacy' mode. Since
> we were installing by pen drive, we changed the boot
> order also.
>
> After the above steps, it detected Ubuntu and we
> finally installed Ubuntu along with Windows (as dual
> boot). The problem starts now. We were not able to
> boot windows from the Ubuntu grub menu boot entry. If
> we want to boot Windows 8, we need to change back
> the boot entry to UEFI mode in the bios and then
> only Windows boots from Windows boot manager.
>
> The reason behind this is Windows 8 is been
> made to boot only in UEFI mode and hence the OEM
> vendors (like Lenova) are configuring their machines
> accordingly. They don't mind/care about other free
> software OS.
>
> Just before this instance, I bought a laptop
> prebuild with Ubuntu (DELL vostro 2420). It doesn't
> had these circus as it was shipped with Ubuntu.
>
> I thought of sharing this details
> with you and our fellow community. The link
> 'http://www.fsf.org/search?SearchableText=secure+boot'
> shared by Bob gives you some insight on this
> restricted booting.
I was able to get my Lenovo G500 laptop dual-booting
after reconfiguring the BIOS to Legacy by powering up
with the smaller power button to the right instead
of the main power button, which brings up a boot
loader dialog enabling both Win8 and Grub. It's been
undergoing warranty repair at Austin, Texas for the
past couple weeks so far (the F1 keycap latching
mechanism was broken in the box--the 5-cent part HAS
to be repaired at the factory-authorized facility to
maintain the warranty!) so I can't be entirely certain
I'm remembering this right. To be fair, it's been a
couple weeks since I surrendered it to my boss to ship
it for service--it may still be in his custody for all
I know.
--
<not cent from sell>
May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
Dave_Craig______________________________________________
"So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.
You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe."
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