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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:24:31
Message-Id: 20120629042208.GA5977@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Hello,
2
3 On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 >OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is
5 >not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed
6 >Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't
7 >perform a UEFI install of Windows.)
8
9 You need to boot Windows directly via EFI, and linux via an EFI
10 elilo or grub-efi or grub2 loader (elilo.efi/grub.efi/grubx64.efi in
11 the EFI-boot-partition).
12
13 See: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html
14
15 >And if Grub can do it, then it's much more difficult to set up
16 >compared to a BIOS boot. I surely don't have a clue as to how to do
17 >that.
18
19 http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
20
21 http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html (Section
22 "Booting from GPT on BIOS-Based Computers", esp. subsection "Windows"
23 and "Hybrid MBR Issues").
24
25 http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html
26 (titled: "Hybrid MBRs: The Good, the Bad, and the So Ugly You'll Tear
27 Your Eyes Out" ;)
28
29 HTH,
30 -dnh
31
32 --
33 Okay, I hate my brain now. I'm going to take it out back and
34 pummel some sense into it. -- Mark C. Langston

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