[Windows 8 General] devinger:
Okay, I will try to describe it as detailed as I can. I assume you will be trying to boot a Linux 32 bit distro and already downloaded the .iso file. You can use a 64 bit version but you will have to google how to make that work. I use rEFInd because it is the most stable way to boot into Linux. I did try using normal GRUB methods but it is very unstable (works 1 out of 4 times for me) while with rEFInd it seems to work all the time for me. The great thing about rEFInd is that you can add more partitions with other distros on the same USB drive.

1. The first thing you need to do is disable secure boot in the BIOS settings. You have to enter the EUFI BIOS. You do this by holding shift while pressing restart. Or by going to settings-> Update and recovery and restart under advanced startup.

You will enter a new menu where you go to Troubleshoot->Advanced Options->UFI-Frimware Settings and press restart. Now search for the secure boot option and disable it and reboot into windows.

2. Now take your USB stick and make at least two partitions, both fat32. One partition should be around 20 mb. This will be the rEFInd partition, the other partition will be the Linux live USB partition and should be big enough for the live image. You can use MiniTool Partition Wizzard

3.a Download the USB flash drive image file of rEFInd. Extract the .img out of the zip. Use a program like 7-zip to extract the .img file and copy its contents to the root of the small partition on the USB stick. If you want, you can test rEFInd now by going to the Advanced Start Up menu again and choose Boot From Device->[the USB device]

If your device isn't listed, reboot and try again. If you did everything right, the rEFInd bootloader will show up. Boot in to Windows again.

3.b Open MiniTool Partition Wizzard, set the rEFInd partition as logical and hide it. Set the live partition to primary and change the letter of the second partition so it is visible in windows.

4. Download Universal USB Installer and open it. Select the distro, .iso file and the letter of your live partition and press create.

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Depending on the distro, you might have to add a 32bootia.efi and a grub file in a EFI->BOOT folder or unpack an efi.img file (for kali, you can find it in the boot folder) in the root of the USB. Use google to check it out (google: efi boot [Linux distro] bay trail) and download the right grub files. GRUB can be a b*tch on 32bit EFI bay trail tablets but for me everything works. You might need to change some things in the GRUB file to make it work.

5. Now reboot into rEFInd and press escape on you keyboard. If you did everything correctly, a new logo will pop up of the Linux distro you burned on the USB stick. Now boot into it. Depending on the distro, the options of the grub menu will pop-up.

COMMON PROBLEM

A really common problem I got while testing different distro's is after booting from grub, I would see the beginning of the kernel booting but after that the sreen goes blank/black. This problem is caused because the grub file selects the wrong display port. In stead of booting on you main (touch)screen, it loads the HDMI output as the main screen. You can test if you have this problem by simply connecting a HDMI cable and see if it boots okay on your external screen. If that's the case, edit the grub file (add a resolution your tablet understands like "GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768"). Again Google is your friend to find out the right command for the grub of the distro you are using.