SURVEY: What's your experience of LL installed in UEFI mode - good, bad or ugly?

[m654321]

Sorry Mike if you misunderstand my reply, or I misunderstood Coastie's questions. I have not installed LL 3 on any boxes yet, but have installed 2.8 32 and/or 64 on a least a dozen, with mixed results. Some with difficulty. Some without. Only windows 8 has ever been a problem...

Hi Trinidad,
Many  thanks for taking the time to give such a long reply - some of what you said went  a bit over my head but I get the general gist.
I was particularly interested that you mentioned Win8.1 only being a problem?  What was the nature of the problem & did Win7 avoid it? 

The only issue I seem to have had (though it's nonetheless a tiresome one!) with  the Win8.1/LL2.8 UEFI dual-boot,  wasn't with Win8.1 itself, but  appears  to have been with booting-up on the LL side, where LL would sometimes 'hang indefinitely'  at the start-up screen.  It happens regularly, say after around 20 boot-ups into LL.  To resolve this periodic booting issue, I carry out either one of the following two silly work-arounds:

Solution ( 1): Exit the 'hanging LL'  and return to the grubscreen  (by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del  keys together), boot into Win8.1 and then logout, and reboot into LL

Solution (2): Exit the 'hanging LL' and return to the boot-device list , go to Setup, disable Secure boot, enable CSM, save new settings, and reboot into LL.  When this is working, Secure boot is re-enabled and CSM disabled.  Everything then proceeds wonderfully until around 20 boot-ups later when the problem re-emerges and I have to go through Solution (1) or (2), yet again...

I  should  mention that 'Fast boot' always  remains  disabled for the above UEFI dual-boot setup.

Did you experience the 'hanging LL' issue?  What was the issue with Win8.1?

Looking forward to your reply

Cheers 
Mike