topic Re: Dual booting with a Vaio T series in PCs & Accessories

Dual booting with a Vaio T series

TraversTee — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:36:01 GMT

Hi all,

I've been trying to dual boot Ubuntu with my Windows 8 and it just isn't working. There have been a few varied results but none have got as far as choosing a drive. I'm booting from USB drive (which works on other's computers) I've tried all of the suggestions (that I can with these very limited bios options) on the Ubuntu boards, so I can only assume it's a T series specific problem.

Has anyone managed to get it working, if so, how did you manage it?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Dual booting with a Vaio T series

binbash — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:58:04 GMT

Hi TraversTee,

Do you know if you have a locked bootloader? I have never dualbooted a windows8 box so I am not sure if this is the issue.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027864/secure-boot-loader-now-available-to-allow-linux-to-work-on-windows-8-pcs.html

binbash

Dual booting with a Vaio T series

TraversTee — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:21:55 GMT

Hi bishbash,

Thanks so much for your reply, that looks to be exactly what I was after! I hadn't heard of the term locked bootloader before your reply, which made searching for the answer awkward!

I am at work atm without my flash drive so I can't test out the fix, but fingers crossed. Will reply again with more effusive thanks if it works!

TraversTee

*Update*

Well, everyone seems to indicate that this particular fix is for the Linux expert types only (which I am far, far from being) but a more user friendly version is being released in May.

But this definately seems to be what I need, so thanks a lot!

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Re: Dual booting with a Vaio T series

binbash — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:48:08 GMT

Hi TraversTee,

That's brilliant : ), thanks for the update, hopefully you can dual boot soon : )! In the mean time maybe you can run virtualbox with your ubuntu inside.

binbash