As posted in another thread, there where reported problems getting Kubrick to boot on a Win8.1 machine.
Turned out in that case, I had given the poster the wrong directions.
My bad.
But that was an Intel Celeron powered machine.
At the same time (+/- a day) I received a new little box that is (soon: was) running Win8.1 -
My box is running one of the Intel Z37xxx SoC devices.
The Z35xxx and Z37xxx products where not introduced until after the most recent build of Kubrick.
Also, MS shifted (with Win8.0) to UEFI with GPT disk labels **only** - no legacy DOS disk label support.
That trend (should) be continuing with Win9 and Win10.
(Although I am the last person to know about anything MS.)
The Z35 and Z37 products have another quirk that makes support difficult -
Although 64-bit CPUs, they boot in 32-bit and use 32-bit UEFI boot loaders.
Which makes things a bit more tricky when booting a 64-bit OS.
(Which can be done, my Win8.1 is a 64-bit OS.)
Intel info at:
http://ark.intel.com/products/80274/...up-to-1_83-GHz
Intel has been pushing Z35/Z37 support into the Linux kernel (starting with v-3.16), but so far the oldest I have tested and gotten to boot and run on my box is this one:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/i38...neric/download
(The flavor used by Ubuntu 15.04-beta.)
I intend to continue with my testing (as part of replacing the Win8.1 install on my new box) and will see if I can come up with a UEFI support, newer Kernel for Kubrick.
Note: The posted Kubrick has been reported to boot on Mac devices (EFI boot, but with legacy support as far as I know).
Edit:
I will also be trying out the latest (4.2.0) generic kernel.
That may 'fix' Kubric for the next few years.