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[ale] Debian/Ubuntu/Mint install

That's that I did -- and now I have a brick!

Apparently I am caught in some sort of diabolical hell caused by EFI and Secure Boot.

The BIOS software doesn't have a usable manual and the Ubuntu install program seems to believe (wrongly) that it plays nicely with this crap. It even requires me to set up a partition just for EFI!

I'm still fighting this.  Has anyone here recently installed a current Debian OS on a computer damned with a UFI/Secure Boot BIOS?

Sean



----- Original Message -----


Wipe the disk. Don't bother with a winbloze install at all. Win10 is not worth the effort to keep it. 

On Oct 9, 2016 12:45 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" < DJPfulio at jdpfu.com > wrote: 



> 4. Manual" 
> 

That is what you want, but it will assume you know enough to make the 
partitions you want, set the type as needed and tell them where to be 
mounted. /, /home, /boot, swap ... assuming you want those. 

Of you want to dual boot, then just shrink the Windows disk use to be 
small enough for Linux to be installed, then use the "manual" 
partitioning at that same screen. Why is it this hard? Because the 
default setup since Win8 has had a few disk partition settings that 
aren't friendly to Linux (fastboot, hibernation). These need to be 
disabled and a reboot done so the NTFS file systems are actually closed 
first. Linux won't touch an "open" file system. 
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