Booting backtrack5 from USB on surface pro 2 - Microsoft Surface

Hi,
Has anyone tested booting backtrack 5 or Ubuntu on Microsoft surface pro 2, I did install backtrack and tried all the possible things too boot with usb but no luck. tried volume down button to boot but no luch. Tried advance startup and restarting on that no luck. Appreciate if someone who has tried booting through usb can help me out. Thank you.
Regards,
Rankitt

Did you disable Secure Boot first? It's definitely possible, although the driver support in Linux for the Surface Pro and Pro 2 was still shaky last I checked.
You generally don't really want to run Backtrack on bare metal anyhow. It runs fine in a Hyper-V VM...

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