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Hello, |
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is |
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>not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed |
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>Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't |
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>perform a UEFI install of Windows.) |
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You need to boot Windows directly via EFI, and linux via an EFI |
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elilo or grub-efi or grub2 loader (elilo.efi/grub.efi/grubx64.efi in |
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the EFI-boot-partition). |
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See: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html |
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>And if Grub can do it, then it's much more difficult to set up |
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>compared to a BIOS boot. I surely don't have a clue as to how to do |
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>that. |
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http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ |
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http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html (Section |
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"Booting from GPT on BIOS-Based Computers", esp. subsection "Windows" |
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and "Hybrid MBR Issues"). |
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http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html |
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(titled: "Hybrid MBRs: The Good, the Bad, and the So Ugly You'll Tear |
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Your Eyes Out" ;) |
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HTH, |
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-dnh |
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Okay, I hate my brain now. I'm going to take it out back and |
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pummel some sense into it. -- Mark C. Langston |