Problems with repartitioning a HP Pavilion Laptop

[Bill Stanley]

On 08/17/2012 09:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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>

So, if you are correct, UEFI might be on my computer.  I've looked in 
the BIOS and saw nothing that suggests that UEFI is present.  Of course, 
it just might mean that there is no BIOS setting or information about 
UEFI.  Is there any way I can find if UEFI is present and can it be 
disabled if present.


Bill Stanley