Ron Leach wrote:
On 22/08/2014 18:05, Joe wrote:I couldn't be bothered messing about with dual boot, so I carry a pocket USB hard drive containing a sid installation, and also have a sid on a VM in Windows. I use the latter for Linux-only software, and the former for using public wi-fi.[SNIP] I searched quite a lot for more details about Debian, even Linux generally, dual-booting with W8.1, but the only returns I found were describing the difficulties. I thought there was a recent thread here, as well, talking about the problems, but my searching has failed to pick it up so far, though we've an archive of deleted messages so I'll have a look through those.
Sometimes it useful to be a packrat.I've found the initial messages of what appears to be several relevant threads [archive links for your reading pleasure ;]
Why UEFI?: Was UEFI https://lists.debian.org/20140709165835.0653bc2a@mydesq2.domain.cxm Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 during Debian install https://lists.debian.org/5380636A.2060302@actrix.gen.nz Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general) http://lists.debian.org/CANcvmg0KMcUsJw3kHbE4ejX1u07YUjH+cA+a7WcCPSh2Zd4L-Q@mail.gmail.com UEFI install http://lists.debian.org/50B518E3.2060107@rail.eu.org New Mainboard. http://lists.debian.org/d02e398f7197b478e4735c73cb5803a1.squirrel@fulvetta.riseup.net Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware http://lists.debian.org/BLU0-SMTP15653E5DC15F374ACB750D0AE0C0@phx.gbl HTH