Problems with repartitioning a HP Pavilion Laptop

[NoOp]

On 08/17/2012 01:14 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> < snip >
> 
>> I ran into similar hiccups with my - also new - Pavillon, until I
>> realized that it had this new thingy called UEFI rather than the good
>> old BIOS. If yours suffer from the same malady, the solution is to use
>> grub-efi during the install and tell it to install grub-efi on sda1
>> (something like 100 MB).
> 
> I was afraid I might run into this.  There is no indication that UEFA is 
> the problem.  I looked into the BIOS etc.  Does anybody know more about 
> this?  Where, other than HP tech support, can I find if it is on my 
> laptop, (it was purchased in late May).   By the way, the Windows 
> version is Windows 7, so presumably the OS does not support UEFI.  It 
> still could be in the hardware, just unused.
> 
>
HP bios and Win7 have supported UEFI for quite a few years.
<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+7+%2B+uefi+%2B+hp+dv6>