UEFI on Ubuntu

Marcos Barbosa marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 15:01:01 UTC 2012


> Marcos, you said that Ubuntu can't detect EFI. Don't you mean that the UEFI
> boot sector on that HP machine can't detect Ubuntu? - Anyway I'm typing this
> on a HP Elite 1110 machine which came with Windows 7 pre-installed and
> booting from the HP's version of UEFI. First thing I did was to wipe Windows
> completely. Then I installed (K)ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) while remembering to
> create an EFI-partition (sda1 - 200MB) and tell the installer to put GRUB on
> that partition. All other partitions as usual (ext4). The thing boots in 15
> seconds and runs as a greased lightning.
>
How do that using Ubuntu alternate CD? I need encrypt root too. Two
partitions? one to /boot and another to /boot/efi?

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Marcos Barbosa <marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com>




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