Ok so I'm having a bit of trouble.
I have installed Ubuntu on my hard drive first and then partitioned and installed Windows 7.
I had the idea to dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu and what I did was the following:
Made a clean install of win 7 using all of my hard drive, next I used the ubuntu live cd and gparted to partition my drive to be the following:
/dev/sda1 ext4 20GB (Linux root)
/dev/sda2 ntfs 100GB(Win7)
/dev/sda3 ext4 350GB(Home)
/dev/sda4 extended 4GB(swap)
The thing is, when installing ubuntu I deleted the partiti
I'm trying to install Archlinux on my macbook in dual boot mode.
I part the disk that way :
/dev/sda1 -> EFI
/dev/sda2 ->MacOS
/dev/sda3 -> /boot
/dev/sda4 -> /
/dev/sda5 -> /home
As i read in the docs i don't install grub on my MBR, i put it in sda3 - the boot partition.
So my computer has the following partitions:
/dev/sda -- (I know this isn't a real partition, but more so the boot loader)
/dev/sda1 -- (Windows 7 Boot Loader)
/dev/sda3 -- (Windows 7)
/dev/sda4 -- (Data partition, NTFS)
that means i have
/dev/sda2 as free space.
I do not want to change the MBR of the computer. I would like /dev/sda2 to contain GRUB AND Ubuntu.
I'm trying to install F17 on a new HP box with UEFI. My disk layout is
/boot/efi 256M EFI System Partition
2M BIOS Boot
/ 32G EXT4
/sl6 32G EXT4
/home 183G EXT4
On my first install the installer didn't demand a BIOS boot partition, after install it booted to a blank GRUB command line. On the next install it demanded a BIOS Boot partition.
So I just recently built a new computer and I have Windows 8 running on it, bios is set to UEFI, and Secure Boot is off. Windows 8 runs perfectly on it. Well with the new version of Ubuntu out, I thought I would give it a try in a dual boot on my new system. I have a separate hard drive just for Ubuntu, however I can't even get an installer to load to let me install it!
I have a working Ubuntu uefi-install(12.10). My hdd is partioned with gpt and the efi-partition is on "sda1", and I have a bios-grub partition at "sda2". Ubuntu is installed and is booting perfectly in uefi-mode, and obviously has everything in place, like uefi-firmware and bootloader. I then installed Crunchbang the usual way, in legacy-mode, and grub is written to mbr/sda.
I got a new DELL XPS 8500 with Windows 8. I understand that it has UEFI (as opposed to traditional boot-loading BIOS system).
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (not realizing that it doesn't work as well with the secure-load/uefi system). I partitioned my solid state drive so Windows was on one partition, and Ubuntu would be on a new one (sdb7). This always worked with my PREVIOUS computer...
I have installed ubuntu 12.04 on my Thinkpad Edge (UEFI) using an USB-Stick.
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