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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">How to install Linux on a Packard Bell Easynote LV preinstalled with Windows 8</div>
  24       <div class="date">27th May 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Two days ago, I asked
  26 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html">how
  27 I could install Linux on a Packard Bell EasyNote LV computer
  28 preinstalled with Windows 8</a>.  I found a solution, but am horrified
  29 with the obstacles put in the way of Linux users on a laptop with UEFI
  30 and Windows 8.</p>
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  32 <p>I never found out if the cause of my problems were the use of UEFI
  33 secure booting or fast boot.  I suspect fast boot was the problem,
  34 causing the firmware to boot directly from HD without considering any
  35 key presses and alternative devices, but do not know UEFI settings
  36 enough to tell.</p>
  37
  38 <p>There is no way to install Linux on the machine in question without
  39 opening the box and disconnecting the hard drive!  This is as far as I
  40 can tell, the only way to get access to the firmware setup menu
  41 without accepting the Windows 8 license agreement.  I am told (and
  42 found description on how to) that it is possible to configure the
  43 firmware setup once booted into Windows 8.  But as I believe the terms
  44 of that agreement are completely unacceptable, accepting the license
  45 was never an alternative.  I do not enter agreements I do not intend
  46 to follow.</p>
  47
  48 <p>I feared I had to return the laptops and ask for a refund, and
  49 waste many hours on this, but luckily there was a way to get it to
  50 work.  But I would not recommend it to anyone planning to run Linux on
  51 it, and I have become sceptical to Windows 8 certified laptops.  Is
  52 this the way Linux will be forced out of the market place, by making
  53 it close to impossible for "normal" users to install Linux without
  54 accepting the Microsoft Windows license terms?  Or at least not
  55 without risking to loose the warranty?</p>
  56
  57 <p>I've updated the
  58 <a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Linux Laptop
  59 wiki page for Packard Bell EasyNote LV</a>, to ensure the next person
  60 do not have to struggle as much as I did to get Linux into the
  61 machine.</p>
  62
  63 <p>Thanks to Bob Rosbag, Florian Weimer, Philipp Kern, Ben Hutching,
  64 Michael Tokarev and others for feedback and ideas.</p>
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