<p dir="ltr">Your machine likely uses EFI. It is great, but nothing like what you've used before. The Mint installer may do the right thing, if you turn off Secure Boot in your PC setup. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 8, 2015 2:03 PM, "Michael Patton" <<a href="mailto:pattoma@gmail.com">pattoma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey y'all. I've been out of the dual boot world for at least 4 years. I have a new laptop (lenovo) with windows 8.1, touch screen, etc.<div><br></div><div>I want to do a dual boot with linux - installing mint from a usb thumb drive. I don't want to do the live usb thing because I want to do dev work on it and if it dies...I die.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone done this recently that wouldn't mind letting me email them if I get stuck? </div><div><br></div><div>Thx,</div><div>mike<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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