Booting ubuntu 13.04 on HP ENVY H9 1355 tower

So I've been trying to replace the ridiculous windows 8 OS from my new-ish HP Envy tower, and have encountered nothing but headaches.  From what I've read, its an issue with "secure boot keys" that microsoft would have to issue a software vendor for it to boot.  Ubuntu 13.04 will install on the harddrive but regardless of whether legacy boot or secure boot is enabled or not, the OS will not boot.  GRUB will also not install and the new MS boot loader won't even show Ubuntu.  Even when I completely stripped windows 8 and exclusively installed ubuntu it would not boot.  Anybody have any ideas here?  To me, this seems like blatant disregard on microsoft and their oem partners part of the freedom users used to have to install whatever they wanted on their machines.  

Hi
I just stumbled over your post on Google.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with Hp Envy 13, I didn't test any of the following things on 11.04.
You can upgrade your BIOS, but you need a working Windows installation to do so (to be honest - i don't find the download link on the HP). My Envy is still alive (not overheated, cooling fan is regulated by Linux), it even shutdown once because it got too hot (I put it in my bag and it was still running... / I think 90° C? But I am not sure of the message anymore - the message showed up at the next start and was still "in" BIOS).
Synaptics: I can do drag'n'drop, see http://linuxenvy.blogspot.com/2011/01/t … fixed.html
Switching between the graphic cards, see http://linuxenvy.blogspot.com/2011/01/t … phics.html
The blog is for HP Envy 14, but worked for my Envy 13 as well.
My webcam is working fine, in fact, I'm using it right now in Skype. I'm not aware that I did something special to get it working, as far as I remember it worked out of the box.
I hope it works on 11.04 as well, can you give a feedback if it worked or not? (Because I will change to Linux Mint 11 when it is released)
Regards stupidSheep

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