Im trying to install Windows 8 with Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro. Sadly it wont let me get past the disk partition choice even after formatting the Bootcampdrive. Quickly set up PXE booting to install XP or Windows 78 over EthernetSeven ways to set up multi booting with Windows 8 and Linux. A good bit of the feedback on my most recent post about installing Fedora on my new laptop was along the lines of instead of telling us what doesnt work, please give us some information about what options we have which do work. Thats good advice, and Im happy to follow it. If all we do is sit around and moan about dual booting Linux on UEFI systems, it really is likely to discourage some people from trying it, and the simple truth is that there are options that will work, without a massive amount of effort. First, though, I will repeat something I have said many times before. Every UEFI firmware implementation is different and not just a little bit different, either. Some work really well with Linux installations, dual booting with no problem right from the start. Others are difficult, unpredictable and downright maddening in their inconsitency, and seem to go out of their way to prevent Linux booting. So if you want to dual boot Linux and Windows, try to find a description written by someone with the same system you are using, or at least a system from the same manufacturer. Ok, so what are the possibilities 1. Install the Linux GRUB bootloader. C0000098-1.png' alt='Windows 8 Not Booting After Installation' title='Windows 8 Not Booting After Installation' />Well, the first and certainly the simplest if it works properly, is to install the Linux GRUB bootloader as the default boot object, and have it control dual booting with Windows. To do this, of course, you have to have a UEFI compatible Linux distribution the ones I have tried and can vouch for are open. Su. SE, Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu, but there are others and there are more coming in the near future. If you have a UEFI Secure Boot compatible Linux distribution, you dont even have to change the UEFI configuration settings, although a lot of people will choose to disable Secure Boot anyway. When you install a UEFI compatible Linux distribution, if everything works as it should and the UEFI firmware configuration works properly and does not get improperly reset which I have seen happen far too often, then when you reboot after installation completes you will get the GRUB boot menu, and you will be able to choose either Linux the default or Windows 8 to boot from it. At that point you are almost home free but be aware that I have personally seen and personally own systems which at some later point will suddenly reset the configuration to boot Windows for no particular reason. If this happens, you should consider using one of the other methods described below, because my experience has been that it doesnt happen just once. Use the BIOS Boot Select Key. Are you troubled by Windows cannot be installed to this disk like MBR disk, GPT disk, and dynamic disk Find the top solutions to continue Windows installation. Windows 8 was released with four editions, with varying feature sets. The editions with modified features are called Pro, Enterprise, and RT. There are versions of. The second possibility is that you choose a UEFI compatible Linux distribution, the installation goes along just fine, but when you reboot it comes up with Windows rather than Linux. This can be very disheartening, but it is actually not that difficult to work with. The important thing to remember is that the Linux installation will have added itself to the boot list you just need to be able to get to that list to boot it. The simplest way to do that is to use the BIOS Boot Selection option, which is activated by pressing a special key during the power on or reboot process. That special key varies between systems, I have seen Escape, F9 and F1. Im sure there are others. When you press it, the Windows boot process will be interrupted and you will get a list of available operating systems probably Windows 8 and Linux. I personally dont care for this option because I dont like to have to race with the boot process to make sure that I press the Boot Select key in time, and if I am distracted or too slow then I have to go all the way through Windows boot and then just immediately reboot to get back to the Boot Selection menu. But a lot of people dont seem to mind it, and it certainly is an option which requires a minimum of fiddling and fighting with stubborn BIOS configurations. One way that this can be made a bit easier is to go into the BIOS setup and choose a start up delay, many systems will allow you to set anywhere from 5 to 3. Windows actually boots, thus giving you a lot more time to press the magic key. Enable Legacy BootThe third simple possibility is to enable Legacy Boot in the BIOS configuration, and just ignore the whole UEFI issue. This is not an option that I personally prefer, in part because I am stubborn and in part because as Adam Williamson explained to me some time ago there are some functional advantages to UEFI boot. But it certainly is a viable option, and strictly in terms of getting Linux installed and booting it might actually be the absolute simplest solution. The only problem that I have seen with this option is that some systems make it difficult to enable Legacy Boot, either the option is well hidden in the BIOS configuration, or you actually have to set a BIOS password before they will let you change it. I have heard that there might be some systems which dont have Legacy Boot support at all, but I have never seen one like that. Anyway, if you choose this route not only does it make things much simpler for installing and configuring dual boot, it allows you to install pretty much any Linux distribution you want, without regard to UEFI compatbility. I have personally used this option to install non UEFI Linux distributions, such as Solyd. This guide shows one method of fixing Windows Vista if it stops at a black screen when it boots up. Windows could not complete the installation. Permalink. Most laptops have a dual key function system for the too row of keys. Dual Booting Windows 7 and Windows 8. To get started we need to logically separate those 20 Gigs from the space that Windows 7 is currently using, to do this we need. Dualbooting Linux with Windows What you need to know Windows 10 or Linux Mint You can have it both ways, but there are a few tricks for doing it right. XK, PCLinux. OS and Linux Mint Debian Edition in a multi boot configuration with some other UEFI compatible distribution. I can then go back and disable Legacy Boot, and just use the UEFI compatible GRUB to boot the non compatible Linux. Try using the Windows bootloader. The fourth possibility should be to use the Windows bootloader to dual boot with Linux. I say should be, because people keep posting comments which say just use easy. BCD to set it up, or even use bcdedit, but try as I might I cant get it to work. I wrote about this a year or so ago, when I got my first UEFI system, and I assumed at that time that the problem was just that easy. BCD was not completely adapted to support UEFI boot, but now I have tried it again, with the latest version of easy. BCD that I could get from the Neo. Smart web page and I still cant get it to boot Linux at all. Now, it may be that I am just too dense to figure it out, but if anyone is going to come along and post a comment that says it works fine, then please be prepared to be very specific, and give exact details of what you did to get it to work. Because I have tried everything thing I can think of, and no matter what I do the only thing I get when I try to boot any Linux installation is a message that says Windows Failed to Boot. I have also searched the web for more information, and the only concrete examples I can find are those who have failed, the same way that I have. I can find lots of places that say easy. BCD works, and use easy. BCD to multi boot Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Mac. OS and Linux, but not ONE which actually says we did this with Windows 8 UEFI and LInux, it worked, and here is what you have to do. What I did was the following. I downloaded and installed easy. BCD 2. 2 on two different Windows 8 UEFI systems the recently purchased HP Compaq, and my Acer Aspire One 7. When I then ran easy. Caracteristicas Del Software Bloc De Notas Html. BCD as administrator, of course, I was surprised that it came up with a list of operating system for its boot configuration. I know that the Windows bootloader had not been seeing or offering to boot anything other than Windows 8. It took me a minute to realize that what it was listing was everything which was in the BIOS boot list. That was exactly what was being offered if I used the Boot Selection option, as described above, but if I just let Windows boot normally there was no sign of these others. Even if I put a 3. Windows boot, using either bcdedit or easy. BCD, it would stop and list only Windows 8. So why was easy. BCD listing all the others I didnt understand, but I hoped that it might be a good sign, that easy.