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So last week I bought an Asus x750jn and got rid of windows 8 as fast as I could. 
Installed windows 7 64bit and the drivers. (well what I could find so far for windows 7) 
I tried to install ubuntu with exe and bootable USB and no luck. Tried to install kali with a bootable USB, Installed but it doesn't give me a boot option to it. 
Any idea how to fix it? thanks 

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So last week I bought an Asus x750jn and got rid of windows 8 as fast as I could. 

Installed windows 7 64bit and the drivers. (well what I could find so far for windows 7) 

I tried to install ubuntu with exe and bootable USB and no luck. Tried to install kali with a bootable USB, Installed but it doesn't give me a boot option to it. 

Any idea how to fix it? thanks 

By "doesn't give me a boot option," what exactly do you mean? I know that when I multi-boot, I have to do some keyboard witchcraft to get the thing to say "Which of these do you want to boot in to?"

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I haven't had experience with it, but my guess would be it's the secure boot feature of UEFI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot

Secure boot is disabled and I can't boot from the usb if i use UEFI boot 

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By "doesn't give me a boot option," what exactly do you mean? I know that when I multi-boot, I have to do some keyboard witchcraft to get the thing to say "Which of these do you want to boot in to?"

Windows 7 works fine but I want to install linux kali and boot on to it too. it's installed but no boot option in the bios.

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Windows 7 works fine but I want to install linux kali and boot on to it too. it's installed but no boot option in the bios

Normally, multi-booting is my thing, but I'll just link you to the article that I used to learn all this stuff http://www.extremetech.com/computing/143380-how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-and-windows-7

Worked for Ubuntu and OSX (until I deleted them on accident but that's a different story).

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When installing Linux, it usually installs a bootloader (GRUB or LiLo) and that bootloader is what gives you the option to chose between OSs, not the BIOS.

kali comes witha boot loader and it didn't work

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kali comes witha boot loader and it didn't work

The fact that Windows boots would suggest that the bootloader isn't written to master boot record.

I've never installed Kali, but Debian usually gives a prompt during installation that you need to approve for it to be written there.

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How can I install a bootloader? never done it or heard of it before

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