Just bought a Sony SVE15125CXS Notebook. Had Windows 8 booting up UEFI. I referenced the following URL for a general outline:
help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
FIrst, I had to figure out how to get into BIOS, and I found that to go into BIOS, you press the "assist" button instead of the power button when you turn it on. I had two settings in the BIOS which were relevant: Secure Boot, which could be set to Enabled or Disabled, and Boot Mode, which was either UEFI or Legacy. I found that in order to boot the Secure Remix of Ubuntu 12.10 from DVD, I had to set the Boot Mode to Legacy. Otherwise the BIOS would say "Operating System Not Found". Secure Boot was always set to Disabled (although I did try enabled, there was no need to). I then installed the Secure Remix Ubuntu 12.10. I divided the disk about 50/50 Ubuntu/Windows 8. After installing Ubuntu and then rebooting I noticed something. At this point, I discovered that I had a BIOS-controlled dual boot system. IOW, if I set the Boot Mode to UEFI, it booted Windows 8, but if I set the Boot Mode to Legacy it booted Ubuntu 12.10. I even considered leaving it like this, since I in fact, had a dual boot system. Although doing this with a BIOS option seemed wrong, so I then booted Ubuntu, (by setting the BIOS Boot Mode to Legacy). Then, I ran boot repair, and it detected EFI, and told me that I might try setting the BIOS to UEFI mode before running boot-repair, in which case I suppose it was saying I would not need to run boot-repair if it worked already. So I ran the recommended option and it all seemed to work. This converts the Ubuntu installation to UEFI mode, so when I rebooted with the BIOS still set to Legacy, I got the BIOS error: Operating system not found", so then I went into BIOS and selected Boot Mode UEFI, and I got the grub selection screen. They say don't edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg but you probably will want to anyway. After that I could run Ubuntu or Win 8 from the Grub selection screen.
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