I recently bought a new PC from PC Specialist (the third one I've had
from them - the laptop I'm using to compose this, and an "entry level"
desktop for my wife). The new machine has an Asus Sabretooth motherboard
with a UEFI BIOS.
The first time I booted up the PC, I was too slow to hit the F2 key to
go into the BIOS, and it booted into Windows (I'd specified that I
wanted the machine with no OS, but I guess that PC Specialist installed
Windows for the system test). I promptly did a restart, and this time
caught it in time to hit F2 and go into the BIOS. I was able to change
the boot order so that it booted from the Mint live DVD, stoked up
gparted and re-arranged sda to have the partition layout I wanted (sda1
as 512MB for the EFI boot partition, sda2 & sda3 as 20GB partitions for
root of Linux Mint and another OS to try out if I fancy it, sda4 as 20GB
swap and sda5 as the remaining 160ish GB for the "visible" home
partition to share between 2 distros. I was then able to install Mint 17
on sda2.
I then followed the tutorial in Linux Voice issue 2 to set up sda1 as
the EFI boot partition and install the rEFInd boot manager. I hit a rock
when I tried to boot from a USB stick with rEFInd on it, or a CD with
rEFInd on it. The error message was: "The system found unauthorised
changes on the firmware, operating system or UEFI drivers." I have a
strong suspicion that this was an after-effect of the Windows
installation which I deleted.
Can anyone suggest a way of removing this Windows contamination, please?
Thanks in advance
Ian
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