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/[email protected]
Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 during Debian install
https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)
http://lists.debian.org/cancvmg0kmcusjw3khbe4ejx1u07yujh+ca+a7wccpsh2zd4...@mail.gmail.com
UEFI install
http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
New Mainboard.
http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware
http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
HTH
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