UEFI and grub2

Hermann J. Beckers hjb-news at onlinehome.de
Sun Jul 31 12:43:49 UTC 2011


Am Sunday, 31. July 2011 schrieb Goh Lip:
...

> 
> Hermann, from your fdisk output, I think you're *not* on gpt
> partitioning. Reason - there should not be an extended sda4 there with gpt.
> 
Sorry, that is the result of my previous knowledge about partitioning. Not 
more then 4 primary partitions, so the 4th has to be an extended and 
everything else is logical (was at least to me ...).

> So, I won't handle the question of putting grub in sda2 where windows is
> there, but lets try to proceed...
> 
> First, do not touch any sda1, sda2, sda3 with whatever we do now.
> 
...
> o Install Ubuntu with sda4 as /boot and sda5 as '/'.
>    At installation make sure bootloader is installed and is *set to sda*
> 
But that will kill/overwrite the installed UEFI loader?
> 
> Regards - Goh Lip

Thanks again
Hermann-Josef Beckers




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