UEFI and grub2

[Hermann J. Beckers]

Am Sunday, 31. July 2011 schrieb Goh Lip:

Thanks for your prompt reply.
...
> Some questions..
> o When installing ubuntu, did you set the /boot partition to that sda2,
> not sda1 which is actually "boot-grub" which we are not supposed to touch.
> 
No, as you guessed right, its on the same partition as /.
fdisk -l from the new computer:

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5ac84f54

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13       26237   210645278+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           26238       28044    14514727+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4           28045       31692    29296641    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           28045       31692    29296640   83  Linux

> o /boot must be saperate from '/', which I think you have on sda5.
> 
> 
>   If you reinstall Ubuntu and set /boot to sda2, you should still have
> your windows intact.
sda2 is the main windows partition. So grub puts its files there and the UEFI 
loader gets them from there? And I point the bootloader installation still to 
the root sector of partition 5?

Thanks for your help
Hermann-Josef Beckers



> 
> Regards - Goh Lip